for David Cormand, number 2 on the environmentalist list, making the link between terrorism and immigration is “a bad thing in terms of security”

While the UN has just passed a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, how do the guests position themselves? David Cormand, EELV MEP, number 2 on the European environmentalist list, believes that Israel “must obey” and that it is “time to stop this massacre”. For her part, Céline Imart nuances and judges that the “ceasefire must be conditional on the release of all the hostages who find themselves caught in the clutches of Hamas”. Furthermore, according to her, the resolution should not “obstruct Israel’s right to defend itself”. David Cormand recalls that “the legal principle of a ceasefire is that it is unconditional”.

Immigration and terrorism

Concerning the enhancement, in France, of the vigipirate plan to the “emergency attack” level, David Cormand recognizes that it is surely “necessary“. However, he wishes “that all means of police surveillance be reserved for the real terrorist risk in [le] country”and not to the one “terrorist echoes”. Céline Imart, who addresses her support to the police, links the question of security to that of “uncontrolled and illegal immigration”. She proposes a “double border principle at European level” and that asylum seekers wishing to enter European soil should send their asylum request “from their country of origin”.

David Cormand, who judges the terrorist risk “extremely serious”believes that it has, however, “nothing to do” with the migratory flow. “Making the link between the two is not only absolutely reprehensible from a moral point of view, but it is above all a bad thing in terms of security. (…) We think we are safe because we would toughen up the border controls, even though that’s not how it happens.”he justifies, specifying that he refuses to “mix the debate with the question of terrorism”.