French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour, who wants a complete halt on immigration, said he was “not the Santa Claus of humankind” when pressed on how many refugees France should take in, adding that he was “here to save the French people and France…not here to save the world.”
The firebrand intellectual made the comments during a debate aired by French broadcaster BMF-TV.
The host of the debate asked Zemmour what the criteria would be for migrants and refugees to be able to obtain asylum in France.
Zemmour responded by saying the migrant should make the appeal in his own country and that if he came to France before doing so, he should be arrested and deported.
He was then asked what type of person France should accept as an asylum seeker.
“Originally, the right of asylum is for freedom fighters like Victor Hugo, Solzhenitsyn, etc.,” he responded.
The candidate then pointed to the example of Japan, which only accepts a relatively miniscule number of refugees on a year by year basis.
Zemmour said he would go back to 1950’s numbers, when France accepted only around 300 refugees a year.
The host then asked if Zemmour would take in persecuted Afghan women fleeing the Taliban.
“Afghan women are not freedom fighters, I do not accept them,” he responded, adding, “I am not the Santa Claus of humankind.”
“Individuals belong to peoples, they have histories, cultures, I am neither here to give moral lessons to 7 billion men, nor to welcome all the misery and all the misfortunes of the world – I close, it’s over,” said Zemmour.
The hosts then tried to trip up Zemmour by asking if he would allow a migrant who had saved a child from a burning building to stay in France, but the intellectual wasn’t having any of it.
-Would you have naturalize this man? -No. -So this man saves a child, -Very good. -and you send him back to Bamako by plane? -Absolutely. pic.twitter.com/BN6vi9YkXr
“I have a duty of humanity to the French people, I have no duty of humanity towards the whole world,” said Zemmour.
“I am here to save the French people and France, I’m not here to save the world,” he added, warning that mass immigration was “changing the face of France” and that migrants were “colonizing” the country.
As we previously highlighted, in a bid to raise native birth rates, Zemmour said he wants to give parents in rural areas of the country 10,000 euros for each new child they have.
According to Zemmour, the goal is to “take back the countryside.”
Back in 2020, the intellectual said the illegal migration problem had become so chronic in some areas of France that it was time for the country’s notorious no-go zones to be “re-conquered by force.”
Zemmour’s political opponents, such as right-wing populist Marine Le Pen, have tried to smear him as an extremist. However, his sentiments are shared by a significant proportion of the French population.
A recent poll by Harris revealed that the majority of French people are concerned about “European, white and Christian populations being threatened with extinction” as a result of “Muslim immigration.”
One of the primary drivers for the native population’s resentment towards the political class is that they were never consulted on the topic of mass migration.
A university in Berlin told women being repeatedly harassed by a sex offender migrant male not to call the police as it may be seen as racist.
The suspect has been sexually harassing female students for weeks around campus at Berlin’s Free University, but the left-wing General Students’ Committee (AStA) has urged them not to alert authorities.
The Morgenpost newspaper reported on an email sent out to students by the group which said women should be wary of appearing racist and putting the sex offender at risk.
“We would like to point out that police operations for people affected by racism are generally associated with an increased risk of experiencing police violence,” the email stated, adding that most police officers are “not sufficiently trained in dealing with psychologically exceptional situations.”
“Therefore such engagements often ‘by unnecessary use of force are escalated.'” the statement added.
Morgenpost reported that the university’s email indicated, “the concern here is obviously less for the potential victim than for the perpetrator.”
Instead of calling the police, the letter says students should instead contact the security service of the university or the social psychiatric service.
“However, the latter can only apprehend an individual with their consent and thus is an unhelpful suggestion,” reports Remix News.
“Despite an intervention, the sex offender appears to resist any attempts to change his ways. Apparently, there was at least one conversation between students and the alleged sex offender, but he has shown no willingness to stop harassing women.”
Berlin police responded to the story by urging women to call them if they felt unsafe.
“Anyone who is in danger or affected by a crime or becomes aware of an emergency situation of others should not let anything or anyone stop them from acting. Call us – dial 110! We are here for you,” the police department tweeted.
Such behavior is nothing new in Germany, which has accepted millions of migrants, the vast majority of them young men, from the Middle East and North Africa over the last decade.
After the mass molestation of women in Cologne by migrant men on New Year’s Eve 2015, the local feminist group infamously responded by visiting the city’s migrant center and handing out flowers to asylum seekers.
Berlin was also hit by a wave of unrest on December 31st last year, although outside of the city itself the media barely covered the story.