On the eve of the presentation of a bill on the prevention and the fight against terrorism, Jean-Michel Fauvergue, former boss of the Raid and LREM deputy, was the guest of Europe 1 on Tuesday.
He reacted to the words of right-wing elected officials who demand that a parallel be drawn between terrorism and immigration.
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"Not all terrorists are foreigners, and not all foreigners are terrorists," says Jean-Michel Fauvergue.
Guest from Europe 1, Tuesday evening, the former boss of the Raid and LREM deputy responded to the controversy fueled by many elected right and far right, who accuse the majority of dodging the link between immigration and terrorism , on the eve of the presentation in the Council of Ministers of a bill relating to the prevention and the fight against terrorism.
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"It's stupid"
"As leader of the Raid, I intervened in major attacks, and all the people I worked on were French," continues the deputy, considering that "by reducing this problem to the problem of immigration, we misses out on the important analysis that we must make on the fact of terrorism. And we lie to the French. "
"If tomorrow, someone agrees by saying 'me, I will expel all foreigners from France, so there will be no more terrorist attacks, it is obvious that this is nonsense", continues the former boss of the Raid. "We have to work on the phenomena of terrorism in all their widths, their structures, on the whole prism. Work on foreigners who are terrorists, but also work on the 70% of terrorists who are French."