for Sandra Regol of EELV, “France must have the courage to say stop to the English”

“France must have the courage to say stop to the English”, calls on franceinfo Saturday, November 27 Sandra Regol, deputy national secretary of Europe Ecology-The Greens. She was reacting to the words of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, asking France to take back migrants who had arrived in the United Kingdom. Sandra Regol is shocked to see London “talking about picking up migrants as if they were objects that could be transferred from one side to the other”, qualifying the attitude of Boris Johnson “inhuman and immoral”.

The deputy national secretary of EELV points out the absence of “political will to renegotiate the Touquet agreements”, signed in 2003, under which the United Kingdom finances the controls and the securing of the transit sites of migrants in the region of Calais, in exchange for the control by France of illegal immigration to England. Sandra Regol denounces “a kind of barter, where we take a little money, but in exchange we will keep the border”, who “is not up to the French Republic and human rights”.

The Touquet agreements in no way reduce the number of migrants passing through France to reach the United Kingdom according to Sandra Regol. “Do you think that when you risk dying in your country, a passage ban will prevent you from leaving?”, she asks.

The environmental leader calls for creating “safe passageways”, and to urgently welcome migrants currently living in makeshift camps, regularly dismantled by the police in Calaisis. That is “we distribute these people in Europe according to employment needs and family reunification, or we continue to be inhuman collectively”, she warns.