The government spokesman also accused the Belarusian president of “inhuman and macabre staging” of migrants aimed at “fracturing” Europe and “scares Europeans”.
Le Monde with AFP
Shameful or understandable? The announcement of the construction of a wall at the external border of the European Union (EU) by Poland, due to an influx of orchestrated migrants, according to the EU, by Belarus, has reacted in France .
Gabriel Attal accused Tuesday, November 16, on France Inter, Alexander Loukachenko, the Belarusian President, “inhuman and macabre staging” aimed at “fracturing” Europe and “scares Europeans”. The government spokesman recalled “solidarity” from the French state with Poland. If “the situation and escalation” between Warsaw and Minsk the “desolate”, the spokesman of the government said about the wall having “no lessons to give”. Same tone at the European member Renew / the Republic in March (LRM) Nathalie Loiseau who said on South Radio “both includes [DRE the reaction of the Poles who feel attacked, assaulted”, while raising the “tragic side of The story “, Poland being” on the other side of the iron curtain “before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
On the other hand, interviewed Tuesday morning on France 2, the Secretary of State for European Affairs, Clément Beaune, opposed the construction of the wall, scheduled for January 2022 :” I am For a Europe holding its borders but not for a Europe that brings themselves from barbed wire or covers walls “. Denouncing the “de facto blackmail set up by Belarus, assisted by Russia,” Aurore Bergé, Chairman delegate of the LM Group at the National Assembly, has also, opposite on radio J at any construction of a wall.
“shameful solution” or “wall that protects”
In the opposition, the announcement of Poland has been denounced on the left. MEPEPUTÉ France Used Manon Aubry wrote in a tweet See in this wall project, to block immigration, “the result of the infamous diplomatic duplicate game in which the EU has been locked up by accepting the instrumentalization of human lives by Loukachenko” .
“It is a shameful solution, which sends us back to the cold war, at this time when we made walls between the Europeans”, has abounded the first secretary of the party Socialist, Olivier Faure, on LCI , claiming that Emmanuel Macron says “his official indignation with regard to the Polish project”.
On the right and on the far right, the announcement of the edification of this wall on the Polish border is perceived as welcome. The member and candidate for the presidential investiture the Republicans Eric Ciotti A Desired, on Twitter , that Europe supports Poland “when it builds a wall to protect our external borders from the migration invasion”. Jordan Bardella, the acting president of the national gathering, has also called France, on RTL, to “accompany the construction of a wall that protects, because what does Poland suffer today is called an invasion “.