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2026

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Narco-trafficking in Europe’s waters: protecting our borders and supporting our law enforcement officers (debate)

Céline Imart, you talk about Bruno Retailleau and narcotrafficking in France: yesterday, the presumption of self-defence was adopted in the National Assembly. We're finally gonna believe our cops before the thugs. But for a year, Mr Retailleau was in Beauvau: reform of the judicial police, recruitment of POJs, payment of overtime, simplification of the criminal procedure, but also minimum penaltie…

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Jul

2026

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Narco-trafficking in Europe’s waters: protecting our borders and supporting our law enforcement officers (debate)

Listen, dear colleague, corruption is a fight that we all have to fight, but the majority of our police, gendarmes, prison officers, intelligence services and military do an exceptional job. I want to say it again here: the problem is not mainly corruption in our democracies, they are thugs who have been left to do too much and who have benefited from judicial laxity, political laxity, cowardice ……

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2026

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Narco-trafficking in Europe’s waters: protecting our borders and supporting our law enforcement officers (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in the face of drug trafficking, we no longer need words but actions, because behind every intercepted cargo there is now bloodshed in our European cities. The European Union finally seems to be aware of the scale of the threat. We applauded with both hands an important agreement with Ecuador – for which I was rapporteur – which has become a strategic point in c…

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2026

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An EU future for the Western Balkans (joint debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I am not going to do the belly dance, Madam, but I am not going to pretend. For us, enlargement is no, and I will explain why. Because, first of all, the European Union is a kind of big colocation, which we already have difficulty with at 27, and therefore enlargement would be difficult. So I wanted to be precise, because I like to be technical …

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May

2026

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Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan following the Taliban's adoption of the Criminal Procedure Code for Courts (RC-B10-0247/2026, B10-0246/2026, B10-0247/2026, B10-0249/2026, B10-0251/2026, B10-0252/2026, B10-0254/2026, B10-0255/2026, B10-0258/2026) (vote)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, together with the group chaired by Jordan Bardella, we wish to add an oral amendment to the resolution on Afghanistan in order to better protect our continent against irregular immigration. This amendment aims to support technical negotiations facilitating the return of Afghans in an irregular situation to their country, while refusing to legitimize and normaliz…

20

May

2026

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Recruitment of children by organised crime (debate)

Dear colleague, I heard you on digital platforms. In Marseille, a 14-year-old boy executed a taxi driver, Nessim, 36, in October 2024. He was sentenced to 17 years in prison. So I'm quite amazed at the "blessed yes" speeches we hear here. I think that in this Chamber I am the only one who has been a police officer for 20 years in the difficult neighbourhoods of France. Stop evangelical or angelic …

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May

2026

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Recruitment of children by organised crime (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I am going to talk to you about France, since you talked about Marseilles, Commissioner. More than 74% of minors prosecuted for murder, murder, beatings and aggravated voluntary violence between 2017 and 2023. One in five people arrested with a weapon is a minor in France. Almost a quarter of the burglaries involve minors. Nearly a third of those arrested aft…

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2026

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EU cybersecurity and preparedness in view of advanced AI systems (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I am glad that we are having this debate because, in my country, in France, I feel that usually nobody cares, even though it is a major subject. Mrs. Keller, don't be unpleasant. It'll change you. Smile, smile. The weather is nice today. In addition, farmers are ahead. And so we are going to talk about an interesting topic that concerns almost a million peopl…

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2026

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EU-Ecuador Agreement: cooperation between Europol and the Ecuadorian authorities competent for combating serious crime and terrorism (A10-0028/2026 - Matthieu Valet) (vote)

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Feb

2026

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State violence in Minneapolis and the rule of law in the United States (topical debate)

Madam President, do not worry, I am a legalist and for almost two years I have been elected to this European Parliament and I have always respected the rules, I have never been caught without anything or anyone. I want to respond to M's defamatory and infamous attacksme Aubry, from unsubmissive France – you will tell me, I am used to: In France, they are in slander and personal attacks, since if t…

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Feb

2026

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State violence in Minneapolis and the rule of law in the United States (topical debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, thank you, Mr Glucksmann, for your weighting and balance, for your constant distribution of patents of respectability. The events in Minneapolis gave rise to a legitimate emotion, Mr Glucksmann. The death of two people is always a tragedy. But unlike you, I don't have variable geometry indignation. Every life counts, everywhere in the world. But I want to say…

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2026

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Restoring control of migration: returns, visa policy and third-country cooperation (topical debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, I will give you a scoop: drastically restricting immigration and enforcing removals is not just the Patriots’ agenda, but it is also the demand of the overwhelming majority of European public opinion. It has even become a vital necessity for our peoples and states. When an asylum application is rejected, there can be a second, third or even 20th chance, always disguised…

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2026

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Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025 (debate)

Madam President, Vice-President Kallas, in the face of Islamism, the European Union is trembling. Not a word about Turkey, a real Trojan horse of the Muslim Brotherhood. When will the European Union finally have the courage to consider this organization for what it is, a terrorist organization, as did the United States, but especially many Arab countries, from Egypt to Saudi Arabia to Jordan. Wors…

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Dec

2025

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Murder of Mehdi Kessaci - urgent need for ambitious European action against drug trafficking (debate)

Mr President, first a word, of course, for Amine Kessaci and her brother – Amine, with whom I had the opportunity to discuss in previous positions. We do not share the same opinions, but in any case, I have always respected his strength of character and his convictions, and I imagine that his brother would have made an excellent guardian of the peace, armed with the same values that I imagine one …

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2025

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Escalating repression of the Baha'is in Iran

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Nov

2025

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Enhancing police cooperation in relation to the prevention, detection and investigation of migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings; enhancing Europol’s support to preventing and combating such crimes (debate)

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2025

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Enhancing police cooperation in relation to the prevention, detection and investigation of migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings; enhancing Europol’s support to preventing and combating such crimes (debate)

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Oct

2025

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Changing security landscape and the role of police at the heart of the EU’s internal security strategy (debate)

Mr President, I find it a pity that, for a debate on the role of the police, which plays a crucial role in our democracies, you have slashed the debate and that we cannot raise blue cards to be able to conduct a debate in the face of an extreme left that insults our police officers, that taxes them on police violence, on facies checks, and that still explains to us that they defy the prohibitions …

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Oct

2025

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Changing security landscape and the role of police at the heart of the EU’s internal security strategy (debate)

Mr President, the police, for me, are a big family. It is a passion and above all a great pride to give back to France everything it has given me by protecting it for twenty years. In 2023, I was proud to command women and men who bravely defended the Republic in the face of scum that set everything on fire, ransacked everything and injured nearly 1,000 police, gendarmes and firefighters in France…

7

Oct

2025

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EU political strategy on Latin America (debate)

I recognize you there, the elected LFIste. Take your breath, I was afraid you'd make a syncope. I should have brought you a glass of water, dear sir. I recognize here the bias of your anti-France movement, always on the side of thugs. You always have a word for thugs in demonstrations. You're bordering the street. When your antifa friends attack law enforcement with Molotov cocktails; We never hea…

7

Oct

2025

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EU political strategy on Latin America (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, as a police commissioner who has devoted my life to fighting crime, I consider that the spectacular results achieved in El Salvador in terms of security deserve at least our interest, rather than denunciation, your systematic denunciation, as is the case in this report. It is true that, before being a parliamentarian, I walked the streets of the cities of Fra…

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Oct

2025

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Situation in Afghanistan: supporting women and communities affected by the recent earthquakes (debate)

Mr President, while the country is still recovering from a twenty-year war between the Taliban, Daesh and democratic power, Afghanistan is hit by an unprecedented and deadly earthquake. Like many, I appreciated that this debate put women at the heart of the humanitarian issue; These women, victims on the same footing as all civilians, but sometimes refused to be touched by religious dogmatism. But…

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2025

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Urgent need to protect religious minorities in Syria following the recent terrorist attack on Mar Elias Church in Damascus

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, it has been more than six months since Bashar al-Assad fell, replaced by a government based on jihad and radical Islamism. After many months, Parliament is finally considering the fate of Christians, who are logically persecuted. For the past six months, religious minorities, especially Christians, have been in danger of death. Their number…

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2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on Albania (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, I do not understand. While my country, France, is plagued by ‘narcoracailles’, narco-traffickers, narco-terrorists and narco-banditism, you persist in maintaining the process of Albania’s accession to the European Union. However, Albania is not a reliable partner. It remains undermined by corruption, by foreign influences – notably Turkish – and…

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2025

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Dissolution of political parties and the crackdown on the opposition in Mali (RC-B10-0291/2025, B10-0281/2025, B10-0291/2025, B10-0292/2025, B10-0293/2025, B10-0294/2025, B10-0297/2025, B10-0298/2025) (vote)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, as coordinator of the Patriots for Europe Group in the Subcommittee on Human Rights, I propose to add an oral amendment to the resolution on Mali, the text of which, in our view, does not denounce Islamist terrorism with sufficient clarity. This amendment aims to pay tribute and honour the bloodshed of our 58 French soldiers, as well as that of our European p…