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Afghan refugees under surveillance: from Xavier Bertrand to Marine Le Pen, the right out of its hinges

2021-08-24T09:17:56.553Z


The announcement of the surveillance, by French intelligence, of five refugees who arrived from Afghanistan this weekend moves the world


Enough to give grain to grind to all those who, Monday evening already, presented the reception of Afghan refugees on French soil as a security threat.

One of the five Afghans under surveillance after being repatriated to France was taken into custody, we learned on Tuesday.

Since this weekend, a man and his relatives have been the subject of increased surveillance by French intelligence services.

At issue: its recent links with the Taliban regime.

"This is an Afghan who helped the evacuation of French people, people who worked for France during the evacuation of the embassy, ​​(...) who probably saved lives", nuance however government spokesman Gabriel Attal on BFMTV this Tuesday.

The man held in custody for not having respected his house arrest is not this man being watched, but a member of his family.

They are four relatives, arrived as the main suspect from Afghanistan, to be the subject of surveillance.

Read also Afghanistan: "2000 people evacuated" by Tuesday, Le Drian considers "necessary" a delay beyond August 31

Monday, this relative left his hotel located in Seine-Saint-Denis to finally be found in intramural Paris "a few minutes later", according to the Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, guest of Franceinfo.

If his arrest and his police custody are consecutive to his breaking of house arrest and no terrorist motive has been established, part of the political sphere demanded his expulsion and that of his relatives on Monday, before the announcement of his custody.

"It's up to the Afghans to take charge," says Odoul

This is particularly the case of the spokesperson for the National Rally, Julien Odoul, who reacts this Tuesday at the microphone of France Inter.

“Marine Le Pen has been saying it over and over again since 2012: terrorists take advantage of migratory highways to infiltrate and then hit us.

(…) The precautionary principle was obviously to refuse the entry of these Afghans into the national territory, ”he believes.

“There are 7,200 km between Kabul and Paris: wasn't there another country, a large Muslim country for example, and perhaps the political sponsors of the Taliban like Pakistan or Qatar, who could welcome these Afghan migrants?

“Asks Julien Odoul, seeming to forget that those who flee are people who have little connivance with the Taliban.

Regarding a moral duty of France towards these refugees, the tone is no less firm: “What moral duty?

Is Afghanistan a former French colony?

No.

(…) It's up to the Afghans to take charge.

"

Ciotti warns of a "Trojan horse"

"Our own transport planes cannot become the Taliban's Trojan horse", for his part estimated the deputy (LR) of the Alpes-Maritimes Éric Ciotti, for whom "the risk of the fifth column is there".

"The Taliban can send their soldiers to France in the flood of refugees", he fears, calling on the government "to control repatriations much more severely".

The fifth column risk is there.

The Taliban can send their soldiers to France in the flood of refugees



I call on the government to control repatriation much more severely



Our own transport planes cannot become the Taliban's Trojan horse https://t.co/pk9QvGDkyV

- Eric Ciotti (@ECiotti) August 23, 2021

On Franceinfo this Tuesday morning, the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin, however, affirmed that each Afghan evacuated by the French army had been the subject of a "screening".

"We know all the people who have arrived on our soil," he added.

Bertrand wants "to expel in absolute urgency"

The president of Hauts-de-France, declared candidate for the next presidential election, believes that the government is accountable.

He must, according to him, "explain to the French what would prevent these individuals from being expelled in absolute urgency."

For Xavier Bertrand "the law must adapt to the needs of our security".

Five Afghans linked to the Taliban under administrative anti-terrorism surveillance.

The Government must explain to the French what would prevent these individuals from being expelled in absolute urgency.

The law must adapt to the needs of our security.

Not the opposite.

https://t.co/6TxOO49ciH

- Xavier Bertrand (@xavierbertrand) August 23, 2021

Expulsion "without delay" for Pécresse

“In the French plane evacuating Afghans were 5 individuals suspected of being members of the Taliban.

If this is true, they have nothing to do on our territory and must be expelled without delay, ”exclaimed on Twitter the president (Libres!) Of the Île-de-France region, also a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic.

In the French plane evacuating Afghans were 5 individuals suspected of being members of the Taliban.

If this is true, they have nothing to do in our territory and must be expelled without delay!

https://t.co/gw7TBo24BZ

- Valérie Pécresse (@vpecresse) August 23, 2021

Danger for the civilian populations or not, "the" duty "of welcoming France takes a back seat when the security of the French is threatened", for her part, said Marine Le Pen, the president of the National Rally.

Source: leparis

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