2023-07-07 11:30:10
Since the emergence of urban riots following the death of young Nahel M., killed by a police officer following a refusal to comply on June 27, the elected representatives of the Les Républicains (LR) party have been engaged in a festival of declarations each more appalling than the other.
Ignoring the indications of the Minister of the Interior according to which “less than 10% of the 4,000 people arrested were foreigners”the president of the LR group in the Senate, Bruno Retailleau, established a direct link between the rioters and immigration, in particularly shocking terms, declaring on July 5 on Franceinfo: “Of course, they are French, but they are French by their identity. Unfortunately, for the second, the third generation, there is a sort of regression towards ethnic origins. »
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In the same vein, MEP François-Xavier Bellamy estimated on the same day in Le Figaro what “naturalization does not mean assimilation” and castigated by “delinquents who shout their hatred of France and burn its flag”. The old rhetoric of the far right is thus propagated by elected LRs, making a distinction between French people, the real ones and the fake ones, those “of stock” and the others.
Loss of landmarks
The dam let go, without being able to distinguish between political cynicism and personal disinhibition, this proclaimed refusal of a colored France experienced as a threat, which in fact trivializes racist speech. A strong rejection surfaced in the exclamation of Senator LR of Val-d’Oise Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio, launching about the young people arrested: “Most of the people who have been arrested are French, okay. But that doesn’t mean anything anymore. How are they French? »
White-hot by Eric Zemmour, who raised from the first scenes of violence the specter of a “ethnic or racial war”panicked at the idea that the political sequence could benefit Marine Le Pen, the one we used to call “the republican right” is losing all its bearings.
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Contrary to the appeasement advocated by Jacques Chirac the day after the riots of 2005, she plays with fire, pretends to ignore that a police fault is at the origin of the conflagration, refuses to wonder about the means to improve the integration of French people whom it no longer really considers as such, establishes a direct link between delinquency and immigration, and in doing so is fully in line with the mental universe of the extreme right.
After calling the rioters “barbarians”, the president of the party, Eric Ciotti, has in recent days made an onslaught of security and anti-migration proposals. From the sharp increase in the number of prison places to the lowering of the criminal majority to 16 years, from the abolition of family allowances for the parents of delinquents to the forfeiture of nationality of binational criminals, its catalog has nothing to envy. to that of Marine Le Pen.
Already, the day after the pension reform, which had divided and weakened the party, the leaders of LR had made a major movement on immigration which had brought them closer to the RN: they had advocated the holding of a referendum on political migration and proposed to derogate from the primacy of treaties and European law when “the fundamental interests of the nation” are at stake. Eric Ciotti’s calculation was to hit hard on sovereign issues to try to loosen the noose between Renaissance and the RN. The reality is that, on sovereign issues, nothing essential distinguishes him from Marine Le Pen.
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