Parisian elected official Fatoumata Koné, leader of the environmental group, received support from the Paris Council on Wednesday February 7 after a message was posted on X by the former candidate for the 2020 municipal elections in the capital, supported by the National Rally (RN), Serge Federbusch, who ordered him to carry out “remigration”.
Tuesday evening, Ms. Koné denounced on the social network the forcible evacuation of a camp of young people presented as unaccompanied minors, installed under the Pont-Neuf, in the heart of the capital. “Only one solution,
On Wednesday, at the Paris Council, the mayor, Anne Hidalgo, denounced a “message that is most abject, nauseating”. “I was born in 1981, I grew up in Paris and I have suffered racism since I have been in politics, since 2014,” responded Fatoumata Koné, moved to tears, before adding: “I was born in France , this is not a subject for me, but a subject for many people”, and to deplore a “racism exacerbated by political news”. The elected Europe-Ecology-Les Verts (EELV) received a standing ovation from the elected representatives of the Council, from all sides.
“These comments are against the law.”
The term “remigration” used by Mr. Federbusch is advocated by proponents of the racist and conspiracy theory of the “great replacement.” It echoes the scandal which is shaking the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party across the Rhine. Executives of the far-right German party, an ally of the National Rally in the European Parliament, are in fact accused of having participated in a meeting in Potsdam with representatives of the neo-Nazi movement, where the establishment of a plan to push foreigners and “unassimilated German citizens” to depart for North Africa.
“These comments fall within the scope of the law,” said the Paris police prefect, Laurent Nuñez, who sees it as a “hateful and odious” attack. Advisor Pierre-Yves Bournazel, member of the Horizons party (presidential majority), also reacted on
Ms. Koné still questioned the Paris police prefect on the evacuation in question in her tweet, accusing him of having “destroyed a refugee camp with incredible violence”. “I am not ashamed of what I did,” replied the prefect, who explained that he had put an end to the “establishment of a precarious encampment.” Dismissing the accusation of “social cleansing” ahead of the Olympics, he argued that the government had “increased the accommodation effort by 30% over the last five years” and was allowing 120,000 people to be accommodated each night in Ile-de-France.