Paris (AFP)
The editorialist Eric Zemmour, potential presidential candidate, is "a great divider", with "monstrous remarks" on the victims of Mohammed Merah, denounced Monday Xavier Bertrand, ex-LR candidate for 2022.
Eric Zemmour is "the great divider", who "had monstrous remarks on Saturday evening, speaking of the victims of Mohammed Merah, of these children, who because they would not have been buried by their parents in France, (. ..) their attachment to France would be in question, what a horror ", declared Xavier Bertrand on BFM-TV.
Guest on Saturday of the show "On est en direct" on France 2, Eric Zemmour, taking up comments from his soon-to-be-published book, drew a parallel between Mohamed Merah, buried in Algeria, and the Jewish children he murdered in front of the denominational school in Toulouse in 2012, whose family chose to bury them in Israel, judging that in both cases "they did not belong to France".
Regarding immigration, Xavier Bertrand recalled that he would propose, if he was elected in April 2022, "a referendum in the fall to take control of our migration policy".
"I will ask the French, if they agree, so that each year the parliament can say, in a totally transparent debate, how many foreigners we are able to welcome and integrate", as Canada is doing or Australia, according to him.
Asked about Emmanuel Macron's plan to create an "independent control" of "the action of the police", the president of the Hauts-de-France region judged that "all this is an additional mark of the lack of confidence, lack of support vis-à-vis all of our security forces ".
"Today, what is happening is that the state no longer defends itself. Those who represent the state, that is to say our police officers, are implicated because they are police officers, because they protect us ", he estimated, proposing" a prison sentence of one year minimum, not adaptable ", for all those who will physically attack a member of the forces of order, a firefighter or an elected official.
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