The pope’s visit was difficult to digest for the French far right. While she is used to fighting immigration in the name of defending the “Judeo-Christian roots” of France, the leading figure of the Catholic Church comes to Marseille to give a lesson in integration and openness. to migrants, in the name of the “duty of civilization” to save “people who risk drowning”.
Not really to the taste of the National Rally. “He is Argentinian and he is not aware of the problem of immigration today in Europe which is destabilizing European societies,” attacked Jordan Bardella, guest of “BFM Politique”, this Sunday noon. “When he says, Marseille is a haven of peace, allow me, like all French people, to take offense and say that he does not know Marseille,” he criticized.
A preference for Benedict XVI
“He chooses to have a political speech but my role is to remind him that when we call for massive immigration, when we call for the unconditional and unlimited opening of all of our borders, so we bear responsibility for the belief and the Eldorado that these people from the continent have for themselves,” he insisted.
Declaring himself “a non-believer but respecting those who have faith”, Jordan Bardella said he preferred “the wisdom of his predecessor Benedict XVI who declared that States have the right to regulate migratory flows”.