Gérald Darmanin calls on United Kingdom to open “legal access to immigration”

“This is because there is no legal way for immigrants to go to Great Britain, and because we work without ID in England, that there is this call air “, judged the Minister of the Interior Monday.

Le Monde with AFP

In the aftermath of an intergovernmental meeting in Calais, whose British had been excluded, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, called, Monday, November 29 on BFM-TV – RMC, the United Kingdom to open a “Legal access to immigration” and to take “its responsibilities” because “today people who want to ask for asylum in England have no other means than crossing the Channel”.

“This is because there is no legal way for immigrants to go to Great Britain, and because we work without ID in England, that there is this call “, reaffirmed Monday Mr. Darmanin. “What to do with the English? And although they change their legislation, that they take their responsibilities!” He launched, recalling that 30,000 asylum applications are registered in Britain against about 150,000 In France each year.

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“I am quite ready to discuss” with the British, “provided we have a normal relationship and mood equality,” Darmanin said, also ensuring that his counterpart, Prii Patel , and called him “almost every day”.

Defense counsel Monday

A meeting in defense counsel for migration stands on Monday morning in Paris “to take stock, at the invitation of the President, Emmanuel Macron, said Darmanin.

Sunday, four days after the murderer shipwreck in the sea separating France from the United Kingdom, which had made at least 27 deaths, were gathered in Calais the officials responsible for the French, German, Dutch and Belgian immigration, the European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Directors of European Criminal Police Agencies Europol and Frontex Borders. Participants had agreed to “improve joint cooperation with the United Kingdom” facing migratory traffic.

/Media reports.