While he came to promote the release of his new album The beautiful one who rains, Pascal Obispo dared to speak out which did not go unnoticed… This Saturday, September 30, the singer, guest of Léa Salamé in What an era, wanted to react to the controversy surrounding the massive arrival of African migrants on European soil, and more precisely in Lampedusa in Italy. While the politician and former presidential candidate Fabien Roussel, the former coach of The Voice quickly cut him off to allow himself a hierarchy of miseries…which quickly caused a blank on the set: “The problem, what do we do with the 300,000 homeless people in France? ? There are serious questions to ask. There are a lot of French people who are homeless, how many people are there below the poverty line?”
Visibly surprised by Pascal Obispo’s allusive remarks, Christophe Dechavanne quickly intervened, and confronted him: “Are the French homeless because of immigration?”Pascal Obispo quickly qualified his remarks: “No, no, not at all! But there are so many problems to deal with here already”. The 58-year-old singer then gave the example of the problems faced by the association Les Restos du Coeurfor which he has been involved for more than twenty years with Les Enfoirés: “It’s still quite dramatic, so what are we going to do? Indeed, we must not fall on these people, we must help them.”
“I don’t ask them their nationality”
Fabien Roussel wanted to react to the words of Pascal Obispo, reminding him that he was not asking for the identity card homeless people he encountered in the street: “I also see at home (…) or when I travel in France homeless people who sleep outside and I do not ask their nationality. We have a duty of humanity. We must provide emergency responses”. A sequence which caused a lot of reaction on the Internet, and which Sophia Aram, also a guest on the show, in turn commented on: “We often contrast these two things, and that’s where we have a problem. Welcoming 1000 migrants is nothing, and we should know how to do it.”
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