Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin urged politicians to "turn seven times (their) thumbs on ( their) mobile before tweeting" The right and the nationalist right have not been long in making a link between the flaws of the European migration system and the dramatic act committed by Abdalmasih H. "There has been a lot of nonsense that has been said.

Either by ignorance or by desire to harm politically," he said. "The French read what politicians say," he added.