The left rose up on Tuesday against the remarks of the Minister of Finance Bruno Le Maire evoking a fraud on the part of people who would return social aid “to the Maghreb”.
“Our compatriots are fed up with social fraud,” said the minister on BFMTV-RMC. “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”, said the minister, assuring not to wink” at the RN.
The leader of insubordinate France (LFI) Jean-Luc Mélenchon rose up on Twitter. “Dear Muslim compatriots or natives like me of the Maghreb, prepare yourselves. To create a diversion, the government announces through the voice of Bruno Le Maire a new campaign to point the finger at you. 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 remembering that social fraud is essentially the made by employers and that tax evasion is beyond measure”.
“Day 1 of the 100 days of appeasement: flatter xenophobic prejudices”, also underlined the leader of the socialist deputies Boris Vallaud.
Among the Insoumis, the boss 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 respond to you in the street”, she said. tweeted.
And the rebellious deputy Thomas Porte recalled 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 and see Switzerland”, “rather than talking about the Maghreb and taking up the racist elements of the extreme right”.
The ecologist deputy Aurélien Taché for his part estimated that the French “are especially 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 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.
04/18/2023 19:28:14 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
