Gabriel Attal has been the government spokesperson since July 2020. – Jacques Witt / SIPA
Government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Sunday that he “will always refuse to draw the line between immigration and terrorism” after the murder of a police official in
Rambouillet, believing that certain speeches on the right “aim to pit people against each other”. “It is a fact that the aggressor comes from immigration, who entered our country illegally, which was regularized, but what I will always refuse is to draw a line between immigration and terrorism” , he said in Political questions (France inter / France info /The world).
Jamel G., 36, shot dead by the police after his attack, was a Tunisian national who arrived illegally in France in 2009 and was regularized ten years later. The president of the Île-de-France region Valérie Pécresse said on Sunday that it was necessary “to stop denying the link between terrorism and immigration, there is a link, in particular with the most recent immigration”. Gabriel Attal denounced, among some on the right, “a discourse which consists in saying that immigrants equals terrorism”, “which aims to pit people against each other, to stir up hatred in our country and which ultimately does not serve not the interest and protection of the French ”.
Marine Le Pen described as a “vulture”
“I am flabbergasted by certain interventions that we heard barely two hours after the attack was committed, that is to say that we still have an intervention at the crime scene and sometimes the families are not not even informed yet ”, he insisted, with particular reference to Marine Le Pen whom he described as“ vulture ”. The executive will “continue to strengthen our arsenal” by a bill presented Wednesday in the Council of Ministers by the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin, and prepared “for several months”, recalled the spokesman.
Asked about the censorship by the Constitutional Council of provisions proposed by the president LREM of the law commission Yaël Braun-Pivet, Gabriel Attal recognized that the bill would be “a way effectively to draw the consequences of this censorship and to make in so that we can be more effective in following up radicalized people when they get out of prison ”.
The censored text notably allowed the judicial authority to impose on persons sentenced to at least five years in prison for offenses linked to acts of terrorism and deemed “particularly dangerous”, a series of measures, ranging from prohibition to appear in certain places or to meet certain people, wearing an electronic bracelet.