Did the terrorists of November 13th take the migrant route to arrive in Europe?

2021-11-15T17:03:53.352Z

VERIFICATION - This is what François Hollande asserted during the trial of the November 13 attacks, adding that the government "knew that operations were being prepared".

THE QUESTION

Invited to testify at the trial of the November 13 attacks, the former President of the Republic François Hollande declared that the socialist government of the time knew that “

operations were being prepared, that individuals had placed themselves in the flood of refugees to deceive vigilance

”.

These remarks made a strong reaction, in particular the essayist and almost presidential candidate Éric Zemmour who denounced a power which "

knew

" and which "did

nothing

The government was aware of the danger and it preferred that the French die rather than prevent" migrants "from coming to France".

Read also François Hollande, abnormal witness at the November 13 trial

Since the beginning of the 2010s, Europe has experienced significant migratory waves from Africa and the Middle East with a peak reached in 2015. Amplified by the war in Syria, the number of migrants arriving in Europe this year- there amounted to a million. At the beginning of September 2015, the French Presidency and the German Chancellery jointly called on the Member States of the European Union "

to protect those for whom it is the last hope

" in the face of "

the influx of migrants of a magnitude unmatched

”. Did the terrorists of the cell of the attacks of November 13 and Brussels in March 2016 borrow these flows of migrants to come to Europe, or to return from Syria for the French who went to train there?

CHECKS

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Source: lefigaro

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