French Member of EU Parliament on What Muslim Immigration Has Meant for France

Patricia Chagnon is a French politician, a member of the anti-Muslim immigrant National Rally party, and a member of the European Parliament. In a recent interview, she said that Europe is torn between those who believe that each nation-state should be able to decide its own policy on immigration, and those who want the EU bureaucrats in Brussels, who favor mass migration, to decide such matters. More on Chagnon’s views can be found here: “Exclusive: From Brigitte Bardot to Burkinis, French ‘Way of Life’ Is Being Destroyed by Mass Migration, Says MEP,” by Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart, June 7, 2024:

The European Parliament elections represent an existential battle between the open borders agenda of elites in Brussels and those who wish to reclaim national sovereignty and save their countries and cultures from being subsumed by mass migration, a French MEP told Breitbart News.

In an exclusive interview before the French public heads to the polls on Saturday to select their next representatives in the EU Parliament, National Rally Member of the European Parliament Patricia Chagnon said that the “crucial” vote will see people decide whether they want to continue being under the thumb of the centralised “imperialistic management” of EU technocrats or citizens taking back control of their own destinies.

For Chagnon, one of the most glaring infringements on national sovereignty has been on immigration, with EU directives superseding national law and European courts enforcing the diktats, with the latest example coming in the form of the new Migration Pact, which she said is an “absolute disaster” that “makes illegal immigration legal”.

If the Germans want to take in a million migrants from Africa, they can do whatever they like, but given the fact that we have Schengen [the EU’s internal open borders system] and they can just walk right into France, there is a problem because that has not been decided by my country,” she told Breitbart London.

Once an immigrant lands in a European country that is a member of the Schengen Pact, that immigrant can then move freely everywhere in what is called “Schengenland.” Thus an immigrant accepted by Germany under its more liberal immigration regime can then move, unhindered, to France.

“It is a country that should decide on its migration policy, definitely not a one-shoe-fits-all decided by some technocrats in Brussels,” Chagnon said. “I profoundly believe that only the National Assembly, where the French people are represented, has sovereignty over my country.”

The MEP said that she has personally experienced the negative ramifications of mass migration, saying that — especially as a woman — she felt the French way of life is slipping away.

Chagnon explained that even as a sixty-year-old woman, she “adapts” how she dresses when she goes to Paris, taking care to cover up when on the streets or public transport. She also said that her own daughter decided to leave the French capital and move to Australia after being attacked on the streets of Paris twice.

“The whole way of life is being changed,” she lamented. “People are adapting their way of life under the terrible pressure that we have from these Muslim gangs going around trying to enforce adherence to their Sharia Islamic laws. They have used the freedoms in Europe to curtail ours.”…

She has modified her mode of dress in public to avoid harassment by Muslim males. Her own daughter has left the country for Australia after being assaulted twice by Muslims on the streets of Paris.

Meanwhile, the globalist project has been bolstered with support from the far-left, whom she argued have “lost their traditional labour [working class] electorate, and are purposefully looking at getting these new ‘French citizens’ to vote for them in opposition to ‘bad, old colonial France’.”

The leftists in France have found themselves increasingly abandoned by their traditional base of working-class voters, but are intent on replacing those supporters with the new Muslim immigrants who have become citizens. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, head of La France Insoumise, is a perfect example of this: a Communist who appeals to Muslim voters for two reasons: he favors open borders and hates Israel.

However, Chagnon said that there is a burgeoning awakening in France of the need to curtail immigration, saying that people are coming to realise that “we can’t integrate them, they are not going to school, they are dealing drugs, they are running wild,” pointing to last year’s race-inspired riots following the police killing of Algerian-heritage teen….

It is clear that when she refers to immigrants who ”cannot integrate” into French society, she means Muslims. How can people who regard all non-Muslims as “the most vie of created beings” want to become part of a society created by those contemptible Infidels? It is Muslims from North Africa who have taken over most of the drug trade in France, who engage in street robberies, home burglaries, vandalism, as well as crimes of violence, such as rape and murder. Muslims now make up 10% of the French population, but 70% of its prison population.

Muslim immigration in France has led to steep rise in crime, leading to a general atmosphere of insecurity. Whole swathes of cities have been turned into No-Go areas where non-Muslims fear to enter. Even firemen enter these areas only when accompanied by a police guard, and the police, too, enter No-Go areas only in force.

The upcoming election for seats in the European Parliament will pit two world views against each other. There are members of that trans-national parliament in Brussels who are satisfied with the “project” of strengthening the EU’s power over the individual nation-states, and who favor more, not less, immigration. And there are those who, such as Jordan Bardella of the National Rally Party in France, the party to which Patricia Chagnon also belongs, who want to decrease the power of the EU, in large part so as to be able to enforce their own anti-immigration policies at the national level. They have now seen the catastrophic effects of mass Muslim migration in their own countries and, mugged by reality, want to call for it to cease. Can you blame them?