A proposal that is likely to make noise? The presidential candidate Arnaud Montebourg wants to block private money transfers to countries that refuse to repatriate their nationals targeted by an expulsion measure from French territory to “hit the wallet” in a France which “no longer manages to to integrate “.
“Why can’t we integrate? Today you have 100,000 compulsory measures weighing on people who have to leave the territory that cannot be carried out. These people are there and, moreover, are often delinquents. So I have decided to hit the wallet, ”explained the former socialist minister on Sunday in the grand jury LCI / RTL / Le Figaro.
11 billion going through Western Union
By what means ? “There are 11 billion money transfers going through Western Union to all countries of origin. We block all transfers as long as we do not have a reception of cooperation, ”he said. “These private money transfers are a windfall for these countries and today we need to say: enough is enough. “
“For me, visa deprivation does not work”, insisted Arnaud Montebourg, while France recently announced reduction in the number of visas granted to Algerians, Moroccans and Tunisians to put pressure on their governments, deemed uncooperative on the readmission of North Africans expelled from France.
According to the former Minister of the Economy and Productive Recovery, “the machine to integrate” no longer works in France and must be based on several principles: “learn French, respect the laws, accept the values of French society , like secularism, and working, having resources ”.
“There will be an Arnaud Montebourg bulletin in April” in the presidential election has, moreover, assured the candidate who is struggling, within an exploded left, to take off in the polls where are credited between 2 to 4% of the vote intentions.