Relations are decidedly stormy between France and Great Britain.
"We have no lessons to receive from the British" on the management of migrants who want to join Great Britain, exclaimed, Monday, November 15, the French Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin, who will receive his British counterpart at the end of the day.
The British "must stop taking us for domestic political punching bags", added the French channel CNews the minister, who will receive Priti Patel at 19 h 00.
"We are neither their collaborators, nor their auxiliaries," he said again.
Gérald Darmanin argued that the situation in Calais, where migrants are massed in the hope of reaching Britain, was the fault of the government of Boris Johnson.
"I will remind my British counterpart, he said, that the NGOs which prevent the police and the gendarmerie from working are largely British NGOs with British citizens who are on French soil and are doing the work. 'agit-prop ".
"Do not reverse roles"
He further argued that "the smugglers, who organize networks and exploit women and children (...) are very often in Britain".
Finally, Gérald Darmanin criticized the "labor market which in Great Britain functions largely thanks to a reserve army, as Karl Marx would say, irregular people who can work at low cost".
"If the British changed their legislation very drastically - they did it, but not enough - people would no longer be in Calais or Dunkirk," he said.
"It is we who are subject to British policy. We must not reverse the roles," said the Minister of the Interior.
Tension had increased between London and Paris on Friday after the number of illegal Channel crossings hit a record high the day before with a total of 1,185 migrants having managed to reach British soil, according to the British Ministry of Justice. Interior.
With AFP
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