No question of giving up. Gérald Darmanin hoped, Tuesday, December 12, that “firm measures” against “irregular immigration” and “foreigner delinquency” would be “adopted by the end of the year”, the day after the rejection of his bill to the National Assembly.
“I regret that we are wasting time to protect the French,” the Minister of the Interior declared to the press during a trip to the Maisons-Alfort police station (Val-de-Marne).
Darmanin has a preference for the CMP
Rejected Monday by a motion voted by the oppositions, his bill can now be abandoned, returned to the Senate – where it had been largely toughened by the right-wing majority – or be discussed urgently within a joint committee (CMP ), composed of deputies and senators. “Institutionally, the text is now possibly in CMP,” underlined Gérald Darmanin, suggesting his preference for this option.
“Whatever path we take, I want firm measures for the police, for the magistrates, for the prefects very quickly,” he insisted, assuring that his text was “popular with the French” . Gérald Darmanin announced that he would go to Calais on Wednesday to meet police officers and gendarmes engaged in the fight against illegal immigration.