“We are falling into fascism” by focusing the debate “only on foreigners”, according to Sandrine Rousseau

“The political debate focuses only on foreigners. We are tipping into fascism because we are focusing our efforts only on foreigners”, deplores Sandrine Rousseau, EELV-Nupes deputy for the 9th district of Paris, on franceinfo Friday October 20. The elected environmentalist criticizes the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, for maintaining “the discourse according to which the threat only comes from abroad”repeating “sleep well, good people […] we will expel from morning to evening”.

After the attack in a high school in Arras on October 13, the Minister of the Interior displayed his “firmness” facing strangers “considered dangerous by the intelligence services” of which he requests “systematic expulsion”. He asked the prefects to accelerate the expulsions of 193 radicalized foreigners in an irregular situation. Expel, “it has become the magic word”tackle Sandrine Rousseau who asks “to measure the impact” of these expulsion procedures. According to her, Gérald Darmanin “try to show that he is in control of the situation”. Gold, “expulsion is not the solution to everything” because “the threat is multiple in France”.

“The extreme right is also one of the threats. By saying that the only threat currently in France is the Islamist attack, we are entering into the discourse according to which there is a kind of conflict of civilization, a conflict of religions .”

Sandrine Rousseau, EELV-Nupes MP

on franceinfo

Sandrine Rousseau believes that the government’s migration policy “is beside the migratory reality”because “There are plenty of people arriving in France who are not only not dangerous, but who also serve the French economy”. He is “unlikely” that she votes for the Immigration bill. The Minister of the Interior wants to include a provision to withdraw his residence permit from a foreigner who joins a “radical jihadist ideology”. But Sandrine Rousseau believes that “if there are dangerous people among the people who migrate”France “Don’t accept them already”. And that the country “have every means not to accept dangerous people”. Thus, according to her, “it’s just a pretext to toughen up the reception conditions for people who also have a role to play in France”. The MP pleads for more “judicial, surveillance and human means”.

The EELV-Nupes MP also opposes the desire of the Minister of National Education to “to go out” radicalized students in schools. Thursday evening, Gabriel Attal announced on France 2, “work on measurements” with his counterparts at the Ministry of Justice and the Interior. “If they are a danger to other students, security measures must be taken”, admits Sandrine Rousseau. But the chosen one has “fear of stigmatization of these students and an almost ad vitam condemnation of being a danger to society”while these are “miners”.