Elam MEP Geadi criticises French left during debate on school protests

Strasbourg, France. Elam member of the European Parliament Geadis Geadi said on Monday that France had “fallen into the hands of the far left and illegal immigrants”. He made the remarks during a plenary debate on school protests that have swept the country in recent weeks.

Geadi calls for a change of government

Addressing the Strasbourg chamber, Geadi said Europe could not remain indifferent to developments in France because it was “not a distant land but a member state at the heart of Europe”.

“Unfortunately, France is not merely at risk, it has already fallen. It has fallen into hands of the far left and illegal immigrants,” he said.

He described a change of government as “the only hope for saving this historic nation”, calling for a new administration that would “restore national dignity and pride to the French people”.

“We must realise that today it is France, but tomorrow it will be Sweden, Romania, Germany, Greece, and Cyprus. Europe cannot look the other way when a member state has surrendered to chaos and anarchy,” he said.

Geadi said he fully agreed with French far-right MEP Marion Marechal, leader of the Identity-Liberties party, who had addressed the chamber earlier.

Marechal accuses the French left

Marechal said “the left” in France was “contributing to a climate of insurrection because, for them, political violence is not collateral damage but an accepted means of struggle”.

She named fellow French MEP Anthony Smith as someone who “encourages and participates in the blockades”.

Marechal also said the French left “exploits the fault lines of a multicultural society made explosive by unassimilated non-European immigration”.

“Here, again, it fans the flames of anti-French hatred, post-colonial resentment, a victim mentality, and an Islamist desire for revenge,” she said.

She claimed that the words “By God, kill her” had been heard during a mob attack on a female police officer who had been thrown to the ground.

Police conduct in Reims

Smith had been on the streets of Reims, in northeastern France, on Friday, where he remonstrated with a police officer who had thrown a smoke grenade into a crowd of protesting schoolchildren.

Reims’ chief prosecutor, Francois Schneider, insisted that the officer had acted “entirely within the law” to “maintain public order”. He said the schoolchildren had been throwing stones at police.