The Arras knife attack, perpetrated by a radicalized foreigner, accelerates the political agenda. This Monday, the President of the National Assembly hoped that the immigration law would be examined in December in the lower house to be “definitively voted on” by Parliament “before the end of the year”.
“What I hope is that we do not procrastinate and that we can vote on it as quickly as possible,” declared Yaël Braun-Pivet on France 2, after a visit to the National Assembly “from the month of December.” “If we reach an agreement with our fellow senators, which I have no doubt, given the circumstances”, this text “will be definitively voted on before the end of the year”, she detailed, convinced of being able to “gather a large majority on this text” thus avoiding going through 49.3.
“We have to be extremely firm”
Presented by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, but partly contested by the Republicans who threaten not to vote for it, the immigration bill provides in particular that “people who are not integrated, who are radicalized, who devote themselves to fierce hatred of the Republic, (…) we must indeed be able to keep them away,” recalled the President of the Assembly. “Today, we must come together and be extremely firm and let everyone know that firmness is on our side,” she insisted.
Dominique Bernard, a French teacher, was killed on Friday in front of his establishment in Arras (Pas-de-Calais) by Mohammed M., born in Russia and originally from the federal republic of Ingushetia. File S (for “state security”), the 20-year-old young man had recently been followed by the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI). His father was deported in 2018 for radicalization and his older brother is incarcerated for his participation in a planned attack targeting the Élysée. In 2014, the attacker’s family was subject to deportation proceedings, which were ultimately canceled.