In reaction to Emmanuel Macron’s remarks, a dozen councilors opened the doors of their town.
Within hours, greetings poured in. On social networks, several socialist and environmental mayors have opened the doors of their commune to Afghan refugees. A reaction to the words of Emmanuel Macron, who said Monday evening to want “protect against significant irregular migration flows».
“Save as many lives as possible”
He is one of the first to have adopted the approach. Tuesday, the mayor Europe-Écologie-Les Verts (EELV) of Grenoble, Éric Piolle, indicated that his city was “ready to welcome to save as many lives as possible“. In a video posted on his Twitter account, the candidate for the environmentalists’ primary urged France and Europe not to sort out, “as Emmanuel Macron wishes“, Come in “good and bad migrants».
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The Lyon city councilor Grégory Doucet and the Strasbourg resident Jeanne Barseghian quickly followed suit, while calling on the Head of State to welcome the Afghans “worthily“. Gathered this weekend on the occasion of the back-to-school universities of the party – preceded by a training period for elected officials – the green mayors could well make new statements in this direction.
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“Always a place”
Far from being alone on the subject, the ecologists are accompanied by the socialists. “The history of Marseille merges with that of the persecuted, the hunted, the starving“, Thus advanced Benoît Payan, the mayor PS of the commune. “Whether they come from Kabul or elsewhere they will always have a place in our city“, he added.
The Phocéen can count on the support of his colleagues Michaël Delafosse (Montpellier), Olivier Bianchi (Clermont-Ferrand), Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol (Rouen) and Mathieu Klein (Nancy). “The first challenge we face […] is the necessary welcome for those who are today in danger of death in Afghanistan“, Explained on his Facebook account the Nancy. A statement written in his name and that of Chaynesse Khirouni, socialist president of the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle.
A “republican bow”
In the entourage of Olivier Faure, first secretary of the Socialist Party, we also plead for “a welcome that must be particularly open to women who refuse to live under a religious regime requiring them to wear the veil or refusing education to their daughters“, In a country” sor an obscurantist yoke».
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The welcome dynamic must therefore be “much wider than the PS and the ecologists», it is further clarified, while encouraging “sincere republican right-wing people“To join a”republican bowOn this file. An operation that seems complicated, as the various representatives of the right have been worried in recent days about a potential wave of migration. The mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, in fact assured this Wednesday on RTL do not wish to receive refugees in their city.
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