in a moment of“Utopia”stated during his general policy statement, he imagined making it an issue of“national intelligence”. Failing that, Michel Barnier has made immigration one of his five priority projects, he revealed on Tuesday 1Ahem October in front of the deputies, in the National Assembly.
As expected, the issue is at the center of the government project. But, distancing himself from his Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, who has been making very right-wing statements since he took office on September 21, the Prime Minister expressed his desire to “respect for the rule of law”. In sunday newspapertwo days earlier, Mr. Retailleau had estimated, on the contrary, that “The rule of law is neither intangible nor sacred.”.
Barnier adopted a more classic stance, sparing advertisements, while contrasting with the hard positions defended when he was a candidate in the right-wing primaries, in 2021. While Retailleau expressed his desire to legislate, in particular to reinstate the crime of illegal residence, regularize less or even attack state medical aid, the head of Government lashed out at the “useless controversies” and defended his “pragmatism”.
Implementation of the “immigration” law
However, he outlined a measure in direct response to the murder of a student found in the Boulogne forest on September 21 and whose main suspect is a Moroccan already convicted of rape, subject to the obligation to leave the territory. “We will propose to facilitate the exceptional extension of the detention of foreigners in an irregular situation”declared Mr. Barnier. The suspect in the murder had been released from a detention center by a liberty and detention judge, three weeks before the murder, in the absence of a consular pass being issued by Morocco.
As the head of government’s statements remain vague, an attempt could be made to reduce the criteria for extending detention; or increase this maximum duration to one hundred and twenty days, compared to the current ninety days. “It will block places for longer and we will place fewer people in administrative detention centers, it is mathematical. “It is a posture more than a lever”doubts a national police officer, who refuses to give his name.
“It will not have an impact on evictions”adds Fanélie Carrey-Conte, general secretary of Cimade. Whatever happens, the government cannot ignore a law on this matter.
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