A senior figure in the main right -wing party of France has caused indignation in France by suggestion of “dangerous” foreigners who refuse to leave the country should be sent to the intention of winding sweet French islands against Canada in the North Atlantic.
French politics has changed to the right in recent months, and the government collected more and more points of conversation of the extreme right, such as security and immigration.
Algeria has refused to recover the nationals who France ordered to leave, including a 37 -year -old man who stabbed in the French city of Mulhouse in February, killing a person.
“I suggest that dangerous foreigners under the order to leave the French territory lock themselves in a detention center in Saint Pierre and Miquelon,” said Laurent Wauquseze on Tuesday, the parliamentary leader of the Republicins Party (LR) of the right (LR).
“They would have an option: go to Saint Pierre and Miquelon or return home,” JDNews told the right -wing website.
Read more: Saint Pierre et Miquelon: Why does France have two islands outside the Canadian coast?
Saint Pierre and Miquelon, an eight island archipelago located right next to the Canadian island of Newfoundland, has a population of less than 6,000 people.
It is one of several French territories abroad that cover the world.
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Wauquiez, who competes for the presidency of the LR party against the popular Interior Minister Bruno Retilleau, said he expected the island’s climate to have a “deterioration effect.”
“The average annual temperature is 5 ° C, there are 146 days of rain and snow. I think it will quickly make everyone think,” he told the CNEWS television station.
According to French law, a prefect, a local state representative, can order a foreigner who does not have a residence permit or has recently arrived and is considered a danger to public order to leave the country.
At this time, they have 30 days to go on their own, or are detained for a maximum of 60 days and the organizations of the French administration their deportation.
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Wauquseze said the detention period should extend.
‘Shameful’
Hi, he faced criticism from the entire political spectrum.
The minister abroad, Manuel Valls, a centrist, rejected the idea.
“Forced exile is the method of a settler, not an electoral legislator,” he said.
France used to send prisoners to the Crimayene Criminal Colony, or “Diablo Island”, in the foreign territory of the French Guiana, but that ended in 1953.
“The Cayenne prison has disappeared a long time ago and, therefore, it should,” Valls added.
Boris Vallaud, leader of the Socialists in Parliament, said that what he called the proposal “Guantanamo-on-Sea de Wauquiez was” shameful “since it was” stupid. “
The new US administration has sent undocumented migrants to the US military prison or Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
Even the extreme right -wing parliamentary leader, Marine Le Pen, was against the idea.
“The place of people under the obligation to abandon the French territory is in their country, certainly not in a French territory,” said the three -time presidential candidate, which was sentenced by Embezeles and forbidden to run in the 2027 races last week.
Wauquseze said his idea had not been inspired by the president of the United States, Donald Trump, but by Australia by sending undocumented migrants to the small nation of the Pacific of Nauru.
Under a hard line policy presented in 2012, Australia sent thousands of migrants trying to reach the country by “processing on the high seas”, including a detention center in Nauru.
The scheme was gradually reduced after 14 deaths detained, multiple suicide attempts and at least six references to the International Criminal Court.
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