France: Heavy Fallout From Murder of Girl by Illegal Migrant

This week, we reported on the latest murder of an innocent person in France at the hands of an illegal migrant, in this case from Morocco. Once again, France is shaken by another monstrous act committed by one who should not have been in the country.

Philippine's funeral

-France Bleu

Jordan Bardella, the leader of the conservative National Rally (RN) party, was interviewed on a show entitled 20 Hours (France 2).  He passionately denounced the inaction and weakness of the government and the French justice system.

Jordan Bardella

The below article in Le Figaro is translated by Fousesquawk.

The murder of Philippine: Jordan Bardella accuses the State of "having failed" and the justice system of being "irresponsible"

By John Timsit

Posted yesterday at 22:09, updated three hours ago

Caption: Jordan Bardella, guest on 20 Hours, Thursday evening. Screenshot/France 2

A guest on 20 Hours on France 2, the president of National Rally Party (NR), says that the deputies of his party will propose the reinstatement of "double punishment".

The tragic death of the young Philippine continues to provoke turmoil. While the principal suspect, of Moroccan origin, was arrested in Switzerland, his profile (under an Order to Leave French Territory), convicted for rape, freed at the beginning of September...), the political class has immediately seized upon the case. The left condemns but is divided as to the diagnosis and the measures to take. The center bloc is quite discreet. As for the right and the National Rally (party), they are raising the tone and multiplying the propositions as to migrant and judicial cases.

After the revelations that the foreign national, age 22, was free for three weeks in September despite the positive response of Morocco to the expulsion request from France, Thursday evening on France 2's 20 Hours, Jordan Bardella denounced an "irresponsible justice system" and the State that "failed". While Justice Minister Didier Migaud had indicated, a few hours before the arrest of the individual by Swiss police, that "judicial laxness does not exist," his nationalist adversary believes conversely that the indulgence of French authorities has "dramatic consequences for insecurity." 

"How many tragedies are needed?"

And the (party) boss passionately took on a martial tone: "How many tragedies until our political leaders become aware of what is happening today in our country?" He took the opportunity to recall that the RN deputies will propose "within a few days, "the reinstatement of double punishment" (prison and deportation) for foreigners committing a crime or misdemeanor. A way for the member of the European Parliament to respond to "the innumerable cases in which our migrant policy coupled with the weakness of criminal sentences leads to an explosive  cocktail for our compatriots."

Once Jordan Bardella's main measures were laid out, the successor to Marine Le Pen and journalist Anne-Sophie Lapix engaged in a little back and forth. When the host estimated, using supporting sources, that the average cost of an expulsion was 13,800 euros, Jordan Bardella responded: "And the cost of the life of Philippine, Madame?". " The cost of Philippine's life is inestimable for everyone," thundered Anne-Sophie Lapix, who asked the RN president for details on the financing of his migrant program.

The nationalist leader may well have argued that Philippine is "the only one who has been executed at this moment," the host of "20 Hours" accused her guest of not answering. Then "bringing the question back to an extremely sensitive subject": "Nobody wished for Phillipine's death".  Not enough to perturb Jordan Bardella, according to whom the subject of financing is posed for only one reason: "We are so used to the State doing nothing, being weak."

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Fousesquawk comment:

Philippine

Was her life not worth 13,800 euros?