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Death of Gerard Collomb: “The time spent in Beauvaux marked him”

On the day of his resignation from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, October 3, 2018, Gerard Collomb announced the verdict in the form of a political sensation. “Today we live side by side. I’m afraid that tomorrow we will have to live face to face. “He is targeting, in his opinion, the “law of the strongest”, “drug traffickers”, “radical Islamists”… The statement made during his transfer of power caused a lot of noise and was followed by a series of comments of the same kind in the following months.

In a devastating tweet numbered 2022, Gérard Collomb reacts to the reception in France of the “Ocean Viking” with its migrants arriving in France. He denounces “a turning point in French immigration policy.” And he adds: “When the creation of a hot spot was considered in 2018 (controlled center) In Toulon I resisted this with all my might and resigned. “For me, this can only contribute to the development of networks of smugglers for whom migrants are a source of significant profits,” he soon added in the columns Dot.

His testimony “confirms the immigrationist vision that Emmanuel Macron never really stopped having,” Marine Le Pen responded without hesitation. In fact, Collomb’s departure from the government is explained by Lyon’s considerations, his relatives will confirm. No matter: far from power, for some time on bad terms with Emmanuel Macron, who did not appreciate his resignation, Gérard Collomb then wants to embody a voice warning about the risks of migration pull. He believes that after the last presidential elections, “the government lost five years” on sovereign issues. Enough to irritate his former comrades, who would see his antics as undermined by resentment and bitterness. Then the right will never stop citing the words of Gerard Collomb as a warning to the executive branch.

“The time spent in Bovo had an impact on him, he saw the harshness of society, the migratory pressure in Calais, it worried him a little,” analyzes the former employee. He also felt disappointment from the majority and the government when he passed the Asylum and Immigration Act. He believed that if the government did nothing about these issues, it would bring the far right into the Elysee Palace. »

Source: Le Parisien

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