Senator EELV from Paris took up Monday on franceinfo the formula of Pope Francis who warned European leaders against “the fanaticism of indifference” in the face of the deaths of refugees in the Mediterranean.
After Pope Francis’ speech on Saturday September 23 in Marseille, in which he warned European leaders against “the fanaticism of indifference” faced with the deaths of refugees in the Mediterranean, Yannick Jadot, environmentalist senator from Paris, guest of franceinfo Monday September 25, estimated that “When the Pope speaks of the fanaticism of indifference, he is facing Emmanuel Macron, who is a fanatic of indifference.” Furthermore, he judged that in his interview with the news of TF1 and France 2, Emmanuel Macron released “just about every cliché the far right has had on immigration for years.”
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“It is the Pope who is realistic. It is the Pope who is pragmatic”, continues Yannick Jadot. According to him, “we are doing a very small part of welcoming refugees around the world. What are we going to do when we listen to the right, the extreme right and this government? Are we going to stop welcoming students? We will make our France a stunted, withdrawn country, which no longer welcomes students?”
And “what mass arrivals?”, he wonders about the 11,000 people who arrived in a few days in Italy and mainly on the island of Lampedusa. 11,000 people “out of 450 million inhabitants in Europe”he says, specifying that it is the “gateway to Europe”.
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The ecologist criticizes the sentence pronounced by the President of the Republic, “we cannot accommodate all the misery in the world”which took up the first part of the famous sentence pronounced in 1989 by Michel Rocard then Prime Minister: “Michel Rocard never stopped at this end of sentence, he said ‘but we must do our part’. France is not doing its part.”
“Even Ukrainians are welcomed much less than other European countries.”
Yannick Jadot, EELV senator from Parison franceinfo
“Even if we look at the global level, there are 800,000 Sudanese refugees in Chad which is one of the poorest countries in the world and we are blocking 7,000 people who arrive in Lampedusa, adds Yannick Jadot. But what is this joke that we would do our part?”