Paris Welcomes Tunisians

As we all know, North Africans, in particular Tunisians, have been flooding into Europe, with their final destination being France. The island of Lampedusa has been one of their stopping-off places before the final lap of their journey to Paris, where it turns out, the municipality and its mayor, Bertrand Delanoë, are rolling out the public assistance carpet. This communiqué from Marie-Christine Arnautu (left), vice-president in charge of social affairs of the Front National, explains:

The Paris City Council has just implemented a double agreement between the department (Ile-de-France) and two associations. The agreement outlines measures to provide public assistance that would cover the expenses resulting from the massive number of Tunisians arriving in Paris.

As an intervention agent for needy Tunisians in northeastern Paris, the association France Terre d'Asile (France, land of asylum) is reserving 130 lodgings in hotels, with individual health, social and legal benefits. The association is seeking any solution respectful of rights and human dignity to help the Tunisians out of their difficulties. The provisional cost of the budget for Parisian taxpayers: 92,000 euros for one year!

Another example of its generosity, the City Council signed another agreement with the association Aurore to finance a temporary emergency residence on the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré for 140 Tunisians in flight, not from Tunisia, but from an area "close to Libya". The estimated cost to taxpayers: 90,000 euros for one month! Then we learn with amazement about expenses of 16,500 euros for food, 1500 for gas and various pieces of equipment, 5000 for cleaning services… among others.

Not content with financing illegal immigration to Paris, the department of Ile-de-France is feeling proud of itself and intends to demand that the associations acknowledge the department's level of commitment, in order to gain some favorable publicity.

The total increase in emergency aid to Tunisian migrants rises thus from 210,000 to 345,000 euros. Consider too the fact that Bertrand Delanoë is insisting on the application of a Franco-Tunisian agreement signed in 2008 allowing for the arrival on French soil of 9000 Tunisians per year who would be granted visas.

The Front National would like to underscore the swiftness with which the Paris City Hall is housing illegal Tunisian immigrants, while nearly 10,000 homeless people are sleeping and dying on the sidewalks of the capital and hundreds of French families are on waiting lists for public housing, barely able to meet their families' needs.

At a time when the residents of Ile-de-France are subjected on a daily basis to growing difficulties (crime, housing and energy costs), the Front National is indignant at the brazenness with which the authorities trample on the law and swindle our compatriots to the benefit of populations arriving illegally.

In view of this preference for foreigners, as clearly defined by the Paris City Council, Marie-Christine Arnautu calls on all of our compatriots to join Marine Le Pen and the Front National, in their fight for national preference, in order to bring to an end the growing poverty and social insecurity of our compatriots.

The photo below of a boatload of Tunisians arriving at Lampedusa is from FNCV. (BTW, this is a wonderful website for French readers - all the news of the military, the events and tragedies in Afghanistan, and more. The home page also provides a recipe for cucumbers with a salty reference to DSK and a refusal to believe in the guilt of the Spanish cucumber as the cause of the E-coli epidemic.)