Gérald Darmanin suspected of “collecting data” on elected officials, according to the head of LR deputies

A report which targets Gérald Darmanin. The head of the LR deputies Olivier Marleix affirmed Tuesday October 31 that he wanted to seize the Commission for Information Technology and Liberties (Cnil) against the Minister of the Interior, whom he suspects of “collect data” on right-wing elected officials who demand regularization of undocumented workers from prefects.

While the immigration bill is the subject of a standoff between Gérald Darmanin and Les Républicains, who refuse article 3 on the regularization of undocumented workers in “professions in tension”, Olivier Marleix says It’s surprising that Gérald Darmanin is able to cite specific examples when he argues on his immigration bill. On Monday, on BFMTV, the minister, for example, called on right-wing elected officials for “coherence”, emphasizing that right-wing parliamentarians “write” for requests for regularization in their territories.

“If these facts are proven, it is a crime”

During the LR group’s press briefing at the Assembly, Olivier Marleix replied: “This is an approach that I fully embrace. It is possible with current law, we do not need article 3“. But when “we write, we write to the prefects. In the name of what is Mr. Darmanin asking the prefects to collect information? Have we found the darkest tradition of index cards at the Ministry of the Interior?“, he said.

“Mr. Darmanin has manners that I will not describe, if he asks the prefects to provide him with information. (…) I confirm that we will contact the CNIL. If these facts are proven, it is a crime“, he denounced. In an article in World, LR Aurélien Pradié had already accused the office of the Minister of the Interior of keeping a “list” on the subject last April. The text is expected at first reading on November 6 in the Senate and in December in the National Assembly.