“It’s really hard to find words that live up to what we all feel.” As a special guest on Europe 1 and CNews on Monday, the former President of the Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy, spoke about the murder of Philippine. He deplored a “triple political, administrative and judicial error” that led to the death of this young girl, killed by an individual under OQTF.
Saying he was “stunned”, Nicolas Sarkozy also pointed to a “double hyprocrisy”. In the first place, “those who cry out for recuperation, as if we did not have the right to comment on something so abominable” and who, he said, “are the first, I think of the far left, to recover when there were the incidents with the Traoré affair or when there was the controversy around this little 17-year-old (Nahel)”. And the former President of the Republic denounced these “cries of outrage against an alleged fascism because we are talking about the pain of this family”.
The left has “transformed the debate on immigration into a debate of posturing”
The former head of state also accuses the left of having “transformed the debate on immigration into a debate of posturing and never of solutions”. To explain this, Nicolas Sarkozy takes the example of charters, the grouped returns of undocumented migrants by plane organized in 2003 when he held the position of Minister of the Interior. “I was doomed to the pillory, accused of being an inhuman fascist. But in these charters, there were OQTFs! How do you want to deport them if you don’t use a means of transport?”
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Interrogé sur les peines planchers , contre lesquelles l’actuel ministre de la Justice, Didier Migaud, s’était opposé, Nicolas Sarkozy poursuit : “C’est leur droit de voter contre. Mais ils ne peuvent pas ensuite se plaindre de la situation dans laquelle se trouve le pays. Car les peines planchers s’adressaient très précisément à des profils comme celui de cet individu [qui a tué Philippine Ndlr]”. Ces peines, instaurées en 2007 par Nicolas Sarkozy, fixaient une sanction minimale pour certains délits. Elles ont été supprimées en 2014 par François Hollande , son successeur à l’Élysée.
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