Jean-François Corty, vice-president of the NGO Médecins du monde, reacts this Wednesday on franceinfo, to the comments of the Minister of the Interior, while 8,500 migrants arrived in three days on the Italian island of Lampedusa last week last.
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Gérald Darmanin’s comments on the ongoing migration crisis in Lampedusa “participate in a hysterization of the debate on immigration”, regretted Wednesday September 20 on franceinfo the vice-president of the NGO Médecins du monde, Jean-François Corty. The day before, Tuesday September 19 on TF1, the Minister of the Interior had, in fact, affirmed that “France will not welcome any migrants present” on the small Italian island, where more than 8,500 people arrived in three days last week.
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Refusing to welcome some of these migrants “does not meet the needs to provide solutions to the humanitarian crisis created by Europe in Lampedusa”, further affirms Jean-François Corty. And “by this political posture”Gérald Darmanin “does not respond to several elements, including the fact of strengthening the necessary solidarity between Europeans, to relieve saturated systems such as in Greece or Italy.”
Médecins du monde denounces a “bad reception”
The vice-president of Médecins du monde, who affirms that the Minister of the Interior “really don’t know to what extent the proportion of asylum seekers” in Lampedusa “will be important or not”also denounces the “bad reception” which is reserved for them in France. There is a “fed up with local residents and associations, because today when we receive a bad reception” in the fifth economic power in the world, “we alter the representation” of these migrants.