Expulsions by group flights? “We must act at the source and fundamental causes of immigration,” replies Agnès Pannier-Runacher

The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, reused the principle of group flights to expel illegal immigrants to their country of origin. Guest of the Grand Rendez-vous Europe 1/CNews/ Les Echos, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, Minister of Ecological Transition, believes that we must “act at the source of immigration”. For her, there are three: “wars and dictatorships, it is our honor to welcome refugees who ask for political asylum”, the climate and the economy. To do this, “we must act at the source, particularly in our budgets. For climate refugees, if we do not act against climate change, we will put millions of people on the roads.”

As for the use of the practice of group flights, the Minister affirms that she does not “share this vision”: “I hope that we are not distracted, but that we are interested in the fundamental causes of the immigration”.