“Ocean Viking”: for Gérard Collomb, welcoming the ship is a “mistake” which risks “creating a precedent”

Relations between France and Italy are undermined by the file of theOcean vikinga ship whose 230 migrants were finally welcomed by France. Monday, November 14, journalist Guillaume Daretlive from Bali (Indonesia), where the G20explains that Gerard Columbusformer Minister of the Interior of Emmanuel Macron, made a “smashing statement” on the subject in the columns of Point.

For Gerard Columbus, “welcome theOcean Viking is a mistake”explains the journalist. “He feels that it will set a precedent and that it opens a gap. But above all, he goes even further, revealing that four years ago, Emmanuel Macron would have liked to open a hot spot in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) or Toulon (Var). The hotspotsthese are the reception centers for migrants, where they are received before examining their applications. He says he opposed it at the time, and explains that this is one of the reasons for his resignation.continues Guillaume Daret.