His statement drew ire from the left. Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire spoke on Tuesday, April 18 on BFM-TV of fraud on the part of people who would return social aid “to the Maghreb”, ensuring “not to wink” at the National Rally ( NR):
“Our compatriots are fed up with [social] fraud. They have no desire to see that people can benefit from aid, send them back to the Maghreb or elsewhere, when they are not entitled to it. This is not made for that, the social model. »
The leader of La France insoumise (LFI) Jean-Luc Mélenchon rose up on Twitter. “Dear Muslim compatriots or natives like me of the Maghreb, prepare yourselves. To distract the government announces by the voice of Bruno Le Maire a new campaign to show you the finger. Cold blood,” he wrote.
For the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure, “the far right dangerously fills the government vacuum”, he lamented, regretting on Twitter that the government “mobilizes racist prejudices to avoid recalling that social fraud is essentially the makes employers and that tax evasion is beyond measure”.
“Day 1 of the 100 days of appeasement: flatter xenophobic prejudices”, also underlined on the social network the leader of the socialist deputies Boris Vallaud.
” Make diversion “
Among the rebellious, the patroness of the deputies of La France insoumise Mathilde Panot also denounced the “big string”. “You will not extinguish social anger by sowing the poison of division. We now know that your moral decay is added to the political vacuum. On May 1, the united people answer you on the streets,” she tweeted.
And the rebellious MP Thomas Portes also recalled on Twitter that “‘social fraud’ is estimated at 1 to 2 billion euros per year. On the other hand, tax evasion is between 80 and 100 billion euros per year”, inviting Bruno Le Maire to “go see Switzerland”, “rather than talking about the Maghreb and taking up the racist elements of the extreme LAW “.
The ecologist deputy Aurélien Taché for his part estimated that the French “are above all fed up that people like Bernard Arnault, the richest man in the world, ask for Belgian nationality to no longer pay taxes in France”. “They understood that you are there to create a diversion,” he tweeted at Bruno Le Maire.
The President of the Republic promised, during his speech on Monday evening, to “strengthen the control of illegal immigration”, while providing “strong announcements from the month of May” against delinquency and social and tax fraud.
