Some say that a third of the refugees fleeing Ukraine at war would not be Ukrainian. An affirmation that does not correspond to the official figures in France.
Le Monde with AFP
Ukrainian refugees? Yes. Non-European economic migrants? No. Several elected officials on the right and extreme right denounced on Saturday, March 12, less than a month of the presidential election, the fact that a third of the refugees fleeing Ukraine at war would not be Ukrainian. This statement does not correspond to the official figures in France.
Nicolas Bay, Vice President of RECONQUEST !, The far-right party of Eric Zemmour, said on FranceInfo That there was “today a third of the refugees who go through Ukraine who do not come from Ukraine at all, but who come from sub-Saharan Africa in particular and who use this new migratory path to come to Europe”.
“PLOMBER OUR PUBLIC ACCOUNTS”
“There are those who come for economic reasons, who come to plumb our public accounts and our social accounts and the Ukrainians with respect to which one has a duty of European solidarity of course”, because they “do part of our civilization, “added MEP, defector of the national gathering.
Other support from the far-right candidate, Marion Marechal had developed the same reasoning Thursday, on CNEWS , relying on a Article of the Figaro . It affirms, without citing source, that 30% of displaced people arrived in France are migrants from other nationalities, including many Algerians.
This article has also been shared by several elected representatives of the Republicans, including the Mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard, who tweeted: “As I saw on the spot (Ukraine and Poland), the more we move away from the Border, the more refugees are infiltrated by non-Ukrainians (who do not have refugee status) via smugglers. “
The Ministry of the Interior said Friday at the France-Presse Agency that, out of 10,007 people from Ukraine controlled on the national territory by the border policing since February 25, the day after the trigger. of the conflict, 9,761 were Ukrainian, 97.5% of them.
“Dual nationality situations”
Didier Leschi, the Director General of the French Office for Immigration and Integration, questioned Thursday at a press conference on the figure of 30%, said: “There was on Paris A proportion that was stronger, but all that was declarative. “” We have dual nationality situations that are not easy to take care of, “he added.
While 2.6 million people fleeing Ukraine were identified on Saturday by the United Nations, the French government anticipates the possible arrival of 50,000 to 100,000 people in the coming days or next weeks. The twenty-seven has uniquely activated the temporary protection mechanism to legally accommodate these people. In France, according to the circular recently addressed to the prefects, non-Ukrainian nationals who did not already have a refugee status in Ukraine and who can enter their country “safe” and “sustainable” will not be supported. under this protection.