During a debate with Luc Ferry on LCI this Sunday evening, the former student figure of May 68 judged that the “exceptional” migratory situation in Mayotte should not be treated “ideologically”.
Daniel Cohn-Bendit's latest statements are surprising. And ulcerate the left. While the debates around immigration in Mayotte have resumed with a vengeance since the island was ravaged in mid-December by a deadly cyclone, the former student figure of May 68 did not mince his words on Sunday evening on the subject. To the point of repeating the rhetoric of part of the nationalist right. Brought to debate, like every week, with the former Minister of National Education Luc Ferry on LCI, the former MEP judged that the «situation» in Mayotte is “exceptional” in migration matters. “We must not discuss the problem ideologically, we must see Mayotte, it is not France, we must not confuse”he says, although the overseas department has been attached to it since the 19th century.
Faced with the scale of the sovereign and security challenges, Daniel Cohn-Bendit goes even further. And urges, by taking up the theses that he fought until recently, to “to slow down and make impossible this immigration which is a great upheaval, a great replacement of the population.” “I am not blind”, he insisted, highlighting the column by ministers Bruno Retailleau (Interior), Manuel Valls (Overseas) and Sébastien Lecornu (Armies) published a few hours earlier in Le Figaro , who call in unison for a “migratory firmness” without which “Mayotte will be rebuilt on sand”. “Will it be effective? If it's effective, it's a defense. If it’s not effective, it’s not a defense.”argued Daniel Cohn-Bendit.
Part of the angry left
It was no less necessary to provoke the irritation of several figures of the New Popular Front (NFP), who protested that one of their leading figures used the speech of their political adversaries for his own purposes. “With complete peace of mind, Cohn-Bendit takes on the concept of “great replacement””mocked the environmentalist MP Sarah Legrain, in reference to the controversial thesis of the essayist Renaud Camus on the consequences of the next waves of immigration in Europe. And the elected official from Paris ironically: “He will undoubtedly soon give us lessons on the right way to beat the far right in the next elections”.
Another reaction, that of the very media ecologist MP Sandrine Rousseau who published a pithy comment on the social network X: “Shame on you Danny.” His rebellious colleague Arnaud Saint-Martin, for his part, described the septuagenarian as “sixty-eight boomer on the path to fascist radicalization.” For a fringe of the left, Daniel Cohn-Bendit definitely went this Sunday evening from “Dany the red” to “Dany the brown”.
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