Gérald Darmanin continues his media operation. ECHR, deletion of the article aimed at regularizing undocumented immigrants in professions in shortage… before examining its immigration text, the Minister of the Interior assured Sunday that there was “no taboo question” to protect the French, in a long and unpublished interview with JDD.
In a nod to the right, Gérald Darmanin is the first minister of his rank to speak in the columns of Sunday Newspaper since the weekly resumed publication under the direction of far-right journalist Geoffroy Lejeune after weeks of strike and massive departures within the editorial staff.
Haro on the ECHR
The three-page interview is largely devoted to the immigration bill, the examination of which in the Senate will begin on November 6. “There is no taboo question if it is to be effective in protecting the French,” declared the minister when asked about the limits imposed by the Constitution or European jurisprudence in matters of immigration.
He notes, however, that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) “does not prevent (him) from doing (his) work as Minister of the Interior”, arguing that he respects “all the rules of the State of law” and the Court.
The day after the assassination of a professor in Arras by a Russian of Ingush origin, Darmanin said he “assumed (r)” to be condemned by the ECHR for the resumption of expulsions of nationals from the Caucasus registered as S to Russia like this had been the case for two Chechens in August 2022. “The ECHR must understand that it is judging in a terrorist crisis situation which did not exist when its rules were imagined,” he stressed to the JDD.
What future for article 3?
On his immigration bill and the thorny debate around its article 3 devoted to professions in tension, Gérald Darmanin says he is ready to “discuss”. “However, the situation is serious enough for us to have to compromise on things that are not central,” declared the minister.
“Some want a decree or a circular, others want it to be in the law. We will therefore discuss this subject like all the others but the government is committed to measures of justice towards those who produce in our country without ever posing a problem of public order,” he explained.
Accelerate the expulsions of radicalized detainees
With the JDD, Darmanin defended the “firmest text with the toughest measures in the last thirty years”. While the path to adoption of his text by Parliament is narrow, notably due to firm opposition from the right, the minister seemed to refer a hypothetical failure to an “extreme left attempting to make systematic obstruction” in the Assembly. “Until now all my texts have been adopted without 49.3 (…) It is up to the Prime Minister to decide whether or not she engages the responsibility of her government,” he said.
In addition, to accelerate the expulsions of radicalized foreign detainees in an irregular situation; Darmanin says he is thinking with his Justice counterpart about a new method. “The idea would be to obtain, a little before the end of the sentence, a consular pass, to release the person early to immediately place them in an administrative detention center and then to expel them,” he said. -he advanced.