"
Faced with this threat, France has a duty to act without delay to fight the Taliban with the same force as Daesh if we do not want to see a terrorist arc extend from Pakistan to the Sahel ...
". This sentence appears in a two-page letter sent by Éric Ciotti to Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday. In this letter, which
Le Figaro
was able to read, the LR deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes joins some twenty parliamentarians to urge the head of state to ensure "the
security of France
" by preventing "
the Taliban from strengthen
”.
Among the twenty or so first co-signatories, whose non-exhaustive list did not exclude also counting senators and certain elected officials from the left, we find in particular the deputies Fabrice Brun, Guillaume Peltier, Brigitte Kuster, Constance Le Grip, Robin Reda, Stéphane Viry . They insist on the danger of seeing a "
continuous chain linking the terrorist bases of the whole world to strike French citizens in France on our soil
".
“The fall of Kabul is not just a grave erected in an Afghanistan cemeteries of empires. It is a dark day for our democracies
", they also underline, before drawing the"
attention
"of the President of the Republic to the resistance"
embodied by Ahmad Massoud, son of the legendary Commander Massoud, joined by Vice-President Amrullah Saleh
”.
The vice-president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan has proclaimed himself interim president in the face of the reestablishment of the Islamic emirate and has joined forces with Ahmad Massoud to announce resistance in the Panchir valley.
The French deputies insist: "
Their appeal for help and their request for arms, ammunition and logistical support must be heard by France
".
"Support with force" the opponents of the Taliban
In their message solemnly launched to Macron, the parliamentarians evoke a "
world war against Islamism
" and believe that the fighters of the son Massoud are "
the last to stand on Afghan territory to defend our security but also dignity. human
”. As a result, they urge the president to "
strongly support
" these Taliban adversaries. "
It is for the honor of France
", they add in conclusion.
In the entourage of Eric Ciotti, it is explained that the idea of this letter was born with the images of the fall of Kabul and the American "
debacle
" in Afghanistan having "
precipitated the people, Afghan in the arms of the most radical and violent Islamism
”, as is written in the letter.
In the lively debate on the reception of refugees, Eric Ciotti warned the authorities of the danger of seeing this international reception turn into a "
Trojan horse
" for terrorists. Defending support for local opposition forces is another way for the right to respond to questions raised by the chaos in Afghanistan and fears of a migratory wave that Emmanuel Macron himself mentioned when he expressed his fears about to
“irregular migratory flows”,
from his summer residence at Fort Brégançon
.