Lambasting the “multicultural society”, the far-right candidate Eric Zemmour called on Wednesday evening for the construction of a “wall” at “all external borders” of the European Union to combat immigration. “I am in favor of it, France and Germany refuse. The Swedish European commissioner Ylva Johansson refuses “, but “I will tip the European majority in favor of the wall, which will be financed from European funds,” he launched on BFMTV.
“Countries that have built a wall like Hungary are defending European civilization,” said the candidate Reconquête! in the presidential election. In favor of “zero immigration”, Eric Zemmour wants a wall at “all European external terrestrial borders”. France, because of its geography, would not be concerned, he said.
“Stop with Islam”
And “we will make a special police” with “border guards at the French borders,” he added, without specifying the cost of the measure. At the end of January, Poland had indicated that it was starting to build a new fence on its border with Belarus to block the entry of illegal migrants, the cause of a crisis between Warsaw and Minsk last year. The wall is expected to cost some 353 million euros and is due to be completed in June.
Calling for a wall on the European borders is still reminiscent of the policy of former US President Donald Trump, and his plan to build a wall on the Mexican border. During the broadcast on BFMTV, a tense exchange also took place between Eric Zemmour and a resident of Aubervilliers. The former polemicist blasted the “multicultural society”, “it means the war of civilizations and it means that it is the most many who win, in this case Islam,” he said. “Let’s stop stigmatizing a population, stop with Islam,” her interlocutor reacted.
This exchange show with French people was organized in Saint-Denis and not in Montreuil, where the team of the envisaged studio opposed the arrival of the far-right candidate. A rally once morest Eric Zemmour was also taking place in Montreuil on Wednesday.
The candidate also mentioned the vaccination pass in the face of Covid-19 and the hope of the government to be able to lift it “at the end of March at the beginning of April”. Eric Zemmour quipped regarding this “coincidence” of timing before the presidential election on April 10 and 24.
