“These people are acting against the survival of France. I consider them to be enemies,” reacted the candidate when members of migrant aid associations came to protest against his arrival.
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An unusual welcoming committee. Far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour was greeted by around 100 protesters at the border post of Chin (Alpes-Maritimes), where he had come to talk about immigration, Friday, January 21.
“Less Zemmour, more love”, “long live the France of diversity and inclusion”, could we read on signs held up by the demonstrators. Among them was the farmer Cédric Herrou, for a time prosecuted for having escorted migrants from Italy and organized a reception camp in 2016 in the Roya valley, near the Franco-Italian border.
A few minutes before the arrival of Eric Zemmour at this France-Italy border post in Menton, several dozen demonstrators block the road shouting “Zemmour go home / Riviera antifa” @franceinfo pic.twitter.com/F6WthiZNDr
— Hadrian Bect (@HadrienBect) January 21, 2022
Migrant support associations “act against the survival of France. I consider that they are enemies. They will be treated as enemies. There will be no more subsidies that will be paid. (…) Cédric Herrou should be in prison”, said at the exit of the border post Eric Zemmour, who must hold a meeting in Cannes on Saturday.
On the merits, Eric Zemmour, who was surrounded by his two new ex-RN recruits Jérôme Rivière and Damien Rieu, qualified “apocalyptic” the timid recovery of immigration in 2021, according to figures from the Ministry of the Interior published on Thursday. He also proposed to reinstate the offense of illegal residence, censured by the Constitutional Council in the name of the principle of “fraternity”, and assured that he “put back[ait] set up collective charters for illegal immigrants”.
On Wednesday, the candidate’s trip to Calais (Pas-de-Calais) had already been disrupted by association and anti-fascist activists. In November, the candidate had also been heckled during a trip to Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône).