"We are at war"
.
The formula comes back, alas, all too often in 2020. After Emmanuel Macron who declared
"war"
on Covid-19
in March
, Gérald Darmanin recalled on Friday October 30 that another front is open against Islamist terrorism.
“We are at war against an enemy who is an external and internal enemy.
We are not at war against a religion but against an ideology, the Islamist ideology ”
, declared the Minister of the Interior Friday morning on RTL, the day after the new attack on Thursday morning in the Notre-Dame church in Nice .
The responsibility of "certain foreign leaders"
For Gérald Darmanin, this ideology represents a
"form of 21st century fascism"
.
She "
wants to impose her cultural codes, her way of life, her way of managing emotions through terror",
he wanted to recall.
Faced with the anxiety and anger of the French, Gérald Darmanin warned that this
"war"
would undoubtedly be long.
"When we are at war we must understand, unfortunately, that there have been and will be other facts such as these absolutely despicable attacks"
, explained the Minister.
Gérald Darmanin also underlined that the threat has grown in recent days after
"extremely strong calls to hatred from certain foreign leaders"
.
The minister referred to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's remarks against Emmanuel Macron.
The Turkish president had asked him last week to go
"to do mental health examinations"
while the head of state had asked
"not to give up cartoons"
after the assassination of Professor Samuel Paty.
"What hinders is the freedom that France offers"
"What undoubtedly hinders is the freedom that France offers to all those who want to be protected by our country
", indicated Gérald Darmanin.
"We must be proud to welcome on our soil all those who are fought by these Islamists, that we can welcome Christians, Muslims persecuted by dictatorial regimes sometimes, by Islamist ideology often"
, he continued. .
Gérald Darmanin, however, rejected the idea of a modification of the Constitution to wage this
"war"
, as demanded by certain opposition figures, including the mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi.
“The greatness of France will be to beat this ideology with the rule of law.
Changing our constitution means proving the terrorists right, ”
replied the tenant of Place Beauvau.
The minister does not want the borders to be closed either.
"Of the last 30 terrorists who assassinated and killed on our soil, 22 are French, and the profile of Islamist terrorists is very diverse,"
he recalled.
Before denouncing the proposals of his opponents: those who
"were in power,
(and had)
no responsibility for Islamism, today tell us by closing the borders, by firing all foreigners, you will have solved the problem of terrorism.
They lie to the French, ”
he assured.
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