VIDEO – In his first major speech on this sensitive issue, the head of state Monday lambasted those who exploit “fears”, without naming them targeting the FN and the UMP.
“Resume fighting” against the “bad wind” and “prejudices”, “let nothing happen.” With these words Francois Hollande warriors came out Monday of silence in which he had prudently taken refuge on the delicate subject of immigration since 2012. Inaugurating the Museum of the History of Immigration, seven years after opened to the public, the head of the state had at heart to reaffirm “values” left in a society that droitise with a FN who got more than 25% of the vote in the European electorate and become highly sensitive to issues of illegal immigration, failures of integration or communalism. The success of the journalist Eric Zemmour Book ( The French Suicide ) would demonstrate this change of mind, according to the Elysee.
In a long speech, delivered Golden gate in Paris , Hollande has advocated a France open and generous, which has been enriched since the nineteenth century at the discretion of migratory waves against “France in decline, a France Small”, a “France that is not France.” Referring to the “anti-Semitic mud” of the Dreyfus affair, the dark days of the Collaboration or racist attacks in the 1960s and 1970s, Holland warned against a “recurrence”, a “return” of these “violence” and these “intolerances”. “Foreigners are always accused of the same evils come for the use of French, he launched. It is always the same suspicions that are peddled. The new fact is the penetration of these ideas in the context of crisis. This is where the doubt about our ability to live together. “
A response to Sarkozy, never name the
” doubt “Francois Hollande wanted to get up. Responding directly to Nicolas Sarkozy – he never mentioned – for whom immigration can “threaten our way of life” but also the National Front, the president criticized the speeches of “fear”, fear of ” dislocation “, the” disappearance “of France. “We must fight against these claims on behalf of France,” he insisted, denouncing those who maintain “maliciously” this “sense of dispossession.” “We must remind the French they come from, what values their country was built and where we want to go together, he added. France will design its destiny through the opening. “In the same vein, the Netherlands regretted that Islam is too often presented as incompatible with the Republic.
Another response to Nicolas Sarkozy, Hollande defended the Schengen Treaty, which allows the free movement of citizens within the European Union. “Popping Schengen? It would be back, restore the country by country borders, “he insisted, promising that France would be initiated during the next European Council to” better ensure security in and control outside “of the Schengen area.
Throughout this speech that the Elysee presidential and unifying wanted, Holland emphasized the contribution of immigration to France, and called address this issue with serenity. “Too many of our citizens still consider themselves as foreigners. Too many of our compatriots have the feeling of not being at home. Here the main tension in our country. In both cases, it is a violation of the republican pact, “said he observed praising the” living together “.
Seven years,” is long for a grand opening “
The president also paid tribute to Lionel Jospin and Jacques Chirac, who worked for the opening of the Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration, this “museum of all pride.” He recalled that it took seven years for this museum was finally inaugurated by the highest state authorities, Nicolas Sarkozy refused to make this gesture in 2007. “It’s long for an official inauguration, a- he quipped. As if immigration had always been a difficult subject which it would be better not to speak. “On the right of foreigners to vote, campaign promise, Holland simply repeated that there remained favorable, while noting that the conditions were not met for such a text, requiring a revision of the Constitution, to be voted. He called “republican forces” to “take responsibility”.
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