The former Prime Minister was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Sunday October 15, 2023.
Manuel Valls, former Prime Minister and former Minister of the Interior, was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Sunday October 15, 2023. Attack in a high school in Arras, Israel-Hamas conflict… He answers Jean’s questions -Rémi Baudot and Agathe Lambret.
Arras attack: “expel all foreigners who represent a danger” and “quickly”
After the attack in a high school in Arras (Pas-de-Calais), Gérald Darmanin calls for “systematic expulsion of any foreigner (…) considered dangerous by the intelligence services”. Manuel Valls agrees with this. The former Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior believes that he “we have to do it quickly and faster”.
The main suspect in the terrorist attack on Friday was listed as S for radicalization. According to the Minister of the Interior, he was closely monitored by the intelligence services. Mohamed M., aged 20, was born in Ingushetia, a republic in the Russian Caucasus. Arriving in France at the age of 5, he saw his request for asylum refused. But he was not deportable because he arrived in France before the age of 13. “There are laws that need to be changed. Unquestionably”, reacts Manuel Valls. This is necessary according to him to “better protect the French” while “we have been living with this terrorist threat for years already”.
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Manuel Valls calls attack in a high school in Arras: “There are no words to describe this barbaric act”, declares the mayor of the city during the tribute to Dominique Bernard“to a profound change in terms of immigration”. This will pass according to him, “by consensus” on immigration law. Gérald Darmanin assured Saturday that if this law was passed, “it will make it possible to expel all those who, even when they are 2 or 3 years old, are foreigners and deserve to return to their countries of origin, because they do not respect the rules of the Republic and they are dangers in power”. The text will be examined in the Senate from November 6.
Manuel Valls hopes that there will be “a very broad agreement between the Senate and the National Assembly, between the presidential majority and the senatorial majority to stop immigration, to review the expulsion processes, to rethink family reunification and asylum issues in a European framework, to protect our borders, particularly those of the South”. It is also necessary, according to him, “obviously review the 1968 agreement with Algeria”.
The former interior minister calls “to change our immigration policies which have been roughly the same for 40 years”. This is why, Manuel Valls “does not only call for the law to be passed [immigration] presented by Gérald Darmanin and Olivier Dussopt” but also “to go further”. He pleads for “constitutional developments”.
Manuel Valls deplores “useless controversies”
“These are useless controversies” on a file that he “didn’t have to deal”. Manuel Valls explains why the family of the main suspect in the Arras terrorist attack was not deported in early 2014, when he was François Hollande’s Minister of the Interior. Originally from the Caucasus and living in Rennes, “this family had been denied asylum and put on a plane to Paris”. She then “refused, undoubtedly under the advice of associations or lawyers, to board the plane which was to take them to Moscow”.
While Mohammed M. and his relatives were “in a detention center”his office “considered that the family, who had been there for more than five years, who had children in school from CP or CE1 to sixth grade, met the criteria of what was called the Valls circular concerning undocumented immigrants, expulsions of children. For this reason, “she was not expelled”. He doesn’t “don’t believe” that this decision was made “under pressure from associations”even if he recognizes that “this pressure existed”.
Israel-Hamas conflict: putting “a sanitary cordon around LFI”
Manuel Valls “calls for a sanitary cordon around La France insoumise”. “There can be no alliance or first or second round [de la présidentielle]” with the party, adds the former Prime Minister of François Hollande. For him, “we need a political, moral, civic disqualification against him”.
The positions taken by La France insoumise (LFI) in the context of the conflict between Israel and Hamas confirm the ex-socialist in what he thinks of the movement. Thus, it is not “not surprised” by the refusal of certain Rebels to qualify as “terrorist” the Islamist organization. On the other hand, he“surprise that some people are surprised or question the nature of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and LFI”.
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