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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 France, I was going to chase thugs, I faced refusals to comply, burglars, aggressors, and I was useful to my society, to the French Republic which gave me everything. So since 2019, El Salvador has grown from one of the most violent countries in the world to one of the safest in Latin America. The homicide rate has increased from more than 100 to less than 2 per 100,000 inhabitants. These figures would make heads of State blush, including my own, because unfortunately, savagery is raging in my country. Gangs that were terrorizing the streets were neutralized. Millions of Salvadorans now live in rediscovered security. More than 93% are satisfied with President Bukele's security record. Forty thousand prison places were created in seven months. In my country, it took almost eight years to create just 7,000 of the 15,000 that Mr Macron had promised. Can you imagine? So I ask a simple question: Why are we talking about El Salvador today, now that violence has receded? I do not remember any urgent debate here, any widespread indignation in this House. Yet, at the time, the victims already existed, the victims we never talk about, who are so often forgotten. Who was talking about the terror of gangs, bereaved mothers, threatened children, neighborhoods taken hostage? This "double standard" questions. Does Bukele's government bother because it succeeds so much where others have failed? I stress that security is a fundamental right, as is freedom. Maintaining good relations with our Latin American partners is essential, and it is not with injunctions, neither through an ideological prism, nor through hatred of this country that we will succeed.

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 in this country, as in so many others, women were victims long before natural disasters and will unfortunately remain so afterwards. Indeed, the real earthquake is happening right here. It is Europe's complicit abandonment of entire regions of the world, or worse, of regions handed over to Islamists. This is the outspoken, uninhibited support, as in Syria, for terrorist leaders who once hit France in the heart, like other countries in Europe – notably Spain and, once, the United Kingdom. Let us not wait for natural phenomena to revolt. Women, like many other minorities - especially Eastern Christians - are systematically the victims of all these new regimes that profit from your political cowardice, from the hypocrisy that reigns in this Parliament and in our institutions. In conclusion, allow me to salute the memory of our soldiers, our French soldiers, but also European soldiers, who lost their lives in Afghanistan to fight to the end of their forces against this Islamism.

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 has increased from 1.5 million to around 400 000 since last year. And what is the European Union doing? It supports a power that, under the guise of alternation, leaves the hands free to the Islamists. Syrian President Ahmed al-Charaa’s three-piece suit does not replace his jihadist side, which he has never left. This also applies when he is received, with a red carpet, at the Élysée by Emmanuel Macron – this was on 7 May. Although he managed to blind the French President, his troops on the ground are still perpetuating their deadly project: persecution, looting, murder. We warned of the deadly danger of European support for the al-Nusra Front – i.e. Al-Qaida. By what miracle did jihadism become politically correct in your eyes? At a time when, in France, a commission of inquiry and a campaign on Islamist entrism is finally opening – yes, I know, it makes the ears of the gauchos bleed – it is time for Europe to carry out its examination of conscience. It is a former police officer who saw his compatriots executed by armed Islamists from Kalashnikov on the evening of 13 November 2015 who speaks to you, and it hurt me to see my president receive a jihadist at the Elysee.

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 has increased from 1.5 million to around 400 000 since last year. And what is the European Union doing? It supports a power that, under the guise of alternation, leaves the hands free to the Islamists. Syrian President Ahmed al-Charaa’s three-piece suit does not replace his jihadist side, which he has never left. This also applies when he is received, with a red carpet, at the Élysée by Emmanuel Macron – this was on 7 May. Although he managed to blind the French President, his troops on the ground are still perpetuating their deadly project: persecution, looting, murder. We warned of the deadly danger of European support for the al-Nusra Front – i.e. Al-Qaida. By what miracle did jihadism become politically correct in your eyes? At a time when, in France, a commission of inquiry and a campaign on Islamist entrism is finally opening – yes, I know, it makes the ears of the gauchos bleed – it is time for Europe to carry out its examination of conscience. It is a former police officer who saw his compatriots executed by armed Islamists from Kalashnikov on the evening of 13 November 2015 who speaks to you, and it hurt me to see my president receive a jihadist at the Elysee.

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 by criminal networks firmly established throughout Europe. I do not know, however, if you read the reports from Europol, the European Police Cooperation Agency, but they are very clear: Albanian criminal groups are among the most threatening to our security. They are deeply involved in drug trafficking, human trafficking, money laundering and the illicit arms trade. Moreover, let us recall that the weapons used in the 2015 Bataclan attacks in my country – which killed 131 people – came largely from the Balkans. They had transited through smuggling routes, in respect of which Albanian networks played a decisive role. This reality persists. Read the reports, ma'am. Europol is still alerting in 2025 about the persistence of this traffic from the Western Balkans to the EU. Finally, Albania remains a major producer of cannabis, an entry point for heroin trafficking from Afghanistan and another key player in cocaine networks. The Albanian mafia is ubiquitous in these criminal circuits. In these circumstances, bringing this country closer to the European Union would be a serious political mistake and would directly jeopardise the security of Europeans, particularly the French.

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 by criminal networks firmly established throughout Europe. I do not know, however, if you read the reports from Europol, the European Police Cooperation Agency, but they are very clear: Albanian criminal groups are among the most threatening to our security. They are deeply involved in drug trafficking, human trafficking, money laundering and the illicit arms trade. Moreover, let us recall that the weapons used in the 2015 Bataclan attacks in my country – which killed 131 people – came largely from the Balkans. They had transited through smuggling routes, in respect of which Albanian networks played a decisive role. This reality persists. Read the reports, ma'am. Europol is still alerting in 2025 about the persistence of this traffic from the Western Balkans to the EU. Finally, Albania remains a major producer of cannabis, an entry point for heroin trafficking from Afghanistan and another key player in cocaine networks. The Albanian mafia is ubiquitous in these criminal circuits. In these circumstances, bringing this country closer to the European Union would be a serious political mistake and would directly jeopardise the security of Europeans, particularly the French.

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 partners who fell in the fight against Islamist terrorists in Mali and for the freedom we all defend here in this Parliament. I therefore propose the following wording: "Whereas the European Union and several Member States have made efforts and lost lives in the fight against jihadism, at the request of the former Malian authorities, including 58 French soldiers, five Dutch soldiers, two German soldiers, a Spanish soldier and a Portuguese soldier". Thank you. This will be a strong signal to our soldiers who, often so young, are committed to our freedoms and fall to defend democracies.

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 partners who fell in the fight against Islamist terrorists in Mali and for the freedom we all defend here in this Parliament. I therefore propose the following wording: "Whereas the European Union and several Member States have made efforts and lost lives in the fight against jihadism, at the request of the former Malian authorities, including 58 French soldiers, five Dutch soldiers, two German soldiers, a Spanish soldier and a Portuguese soldier". Thank you. This will be a strong signal to our soldiers who, often so young, are committed to our freedoms and fall to defend democracies.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as far as I am concerned, this report calling for Montenegro's accession to the European Union is no. First of all, the European Union is not a big braderie where we are going to welcome Turkey, Ukraine, Kosovo, all those countries that are not ready and where we are already struggling to operate at 27 in this difficult colocation. And I'll explain it to myself. In terms of security, Montenegro remains the home of powerful criminal networks, drug trafficking, smuggling and money laundering. Its judicial and police institutions remain largely exposed to political pressure, corruption and foreign interference, including from Russia and China. Arms trafficking and the illegal possession of weapons per capita are a serious threat that we will not be able to contain in our continent, which is already highly exposed, as in my country, to arms trafficking, which causes deaths, in particular through drug trafficking. Economically, the situation is equally worrying. Montenegro is heavily dependent on non-European external investment, particularly from China, and its public debt exceeds 70% of GDP. Its productive fabric is fragile and its strong dependence on tourism makes it vulnerable to external shocks. In these circumstances, integrating this country into the single market would only exacerbate economic distortions and endanger our businesses. And that would be of no service to us or to the European Union. We have to be serious.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, at this very late hour, the report we are debating here makes a clear observation: Kosovo is facing serious structural problems, endemic corruption, pervasive organised crime and continued strained bilateral relations with Serbia. However, let me tell you that he is turning a blind eye to major security issues. Reported to its population, Kosovo has sent a disproportionate number of jihadists to join Daesh and more than 250,000 illegal weapons are freely circulating in the country. These weapons are already circulating freely in our streets, in France, my country of election, which paid a high price for them, since some of the weapons used in Kosovo were also used in the attacks on the Bataclan, committed with weapons from the Balkans. So there is a real subject when it comes to weapons. Despite this alarming reality, you wish to continue to push the integration process with Kosovo ever further. Worse still, the European Union, with the consent of Parliament, has liberalised the visa regime with the Kosovars, even though five Member States still do not recognise its sovereignty. Parliament therefore adopted a report setting out Kosovo's deep fragilities, showing how far it is from the criteria of stability and the rule of law, while pushing for its accelerated integration. What I want to tell you is that we are already struggling to do colocation at 27: If we welcome Member States that do not meet our criteria for the rule of law or our criteria for European standards, we will not be able to continue to have a European Union with the values we hold.

Mr President, since 2016, European taxpayers have paid almost EUR 9 billion to Turkey under a migration agreement. 9 billion, for what result? A dangerous strategic dependence, a de facto submission to an increasingly authoritarian regime that threatens our interests, our security, our political stability and even locks up its political opponents, such as the mayor of Istanbul. President Erdogan uses migrants as a lever to blackmail Europe while pursuing a policy of re-Islamisation - when he made it appear that he had left the doctrine of the Muslim Brotherhood - and, moreover, interference in our neighbourhoods. This country does not share our vision of democracy or our civilizational project. Stop shining a light on this country's membership since 1987. Have the courage to tell Turkey that it will never return to the European Union. It is time to return the money to the Europeans. These billions can and should be used to protect our borders, to support our carers, to support our security forces that are on the front line in our countries of election, including my country, France, and also to help our farmers, not to finance a regime that turns its back on us. Today, Europe is the only continent in the world that pays for its own weakening, which leaves the island of Cyprus, which is part of the European Union, illegally occupied by the Turks. This slow political suicide must finally stop. Europe must protect its interests.

Madam President, my reminder is based on Rule 188 of our Rules of Procedure. You ruled our amendment number 5 to the resolution on Iran inadmissible on the grounds that it was irrelevant. Yet, as part of this resolution, we denounce the persecution of women in this country, which is linked to the strict application of Sharia law. My group's amendment is intended to alert people to the fact that this Islamic law is now supported by certain communities, including the Muslim Brotherhood, in Europe, which advocate political Islam to replace the law of the people. France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy are now at the forefront of this radical Islamism carried by these communities. Madam President, are you so afraid of fundamentalists to dissuade people’s representatives in this Parliament from speaking out democratically on this important issue with this amendment?

Mr President, nothing new under the sun. Regimes held by rigorous Islamism reduce women to pets, persecute religious minorities, execute opponents and turn millennia-old civilizations into gloomy societies. Again, logically, this European Parliament is outraged, and Brussels condemns. But what are they doing? Great hypocrisy, because while, rightly, our institutions mourn the fate of young Iranians sentenced to death for a song, a tweet or a strand of hair poorly covered, this same European Union opens all doors to those of our old nations who take this same path. In France, of which I am an elected representative, Islamism is taking an increasingly serious turn. In Trappes, Roubaix and Marseille, radicalised mosques with preachers from abroad are invading our territory, and France is having a hard time expelling them. Worse, today, this assembly finances masked Islamist organisations such as Femyso, which is nothing less than a showcase for the Muslim Brotherhood. Those who, in France, invented the term Islamophobia, as reported by our intelligence services. That is why I am afraid that Europe will wake up late. And in the absence of a revival, it will be necessary to combat this radical Islamism, which unfortunately has made France the country most affected by Islamist terrorists and which has its source today in countries such as Iran, which advocates this Islamism in place of democracy as we see it.

Mr President, once again we deplore and condemn Azerbaijan's hostile actions against the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh. Unfortunately, we know in advance that this debate and the resolution that will follow will fall into a deaf ear, because the gas agreement signed by the European Commission will in no way be called into question, despite our repeated requests. It is incomprehensible that the European Union is cutting off gas flows from Russia, but keeping a deafening silence in the face of the ethnic cleansing taking place in Nagorno-Karabakh. Moreover, what is the European Union waiting for to condemn Azerbaijan's aggressive stance towards France, a Member State, when it sees its territorial integrity threatened by that country, which supports violent independence movements and spreads disinformation in New Caledonia? On this occasion, I would like to thank our police, gendarmes, soldiers and firefighters who, in New Caledonia, by their bravery and courage, testify to an unwavering commitment to the defence of this European territory. It is of paramount and strategic importance to defend the French sovereignty of these Indo-Pacific territories. Indeed, what would the European Union be without this maritime area of paramount importance and capital in the fields of fisheries, science, defence and energy of the European Union in the world?

Mr President, class council time has come. It is therefore up to us, as elected representatives of the people, to give the European Commission the first marks. I tell you, they are already catastrophic after 100 days. First, Ms von der Leyen must stop her disastrous plan to destroy our agriculture. To complete it, the President of the European Commission took out the heavy artillery: Mercosur and the Green Deal. These weapons of mass destruction aim to bring our farmers to their knees, who in France see one of their farmers commit suicide every three days. Then she talks about European defence. Marketing level, very good; level patriotism, zero. Does Mrs von der Leyen know that thirteen European countries have bought American F-35 military aircraft, against only three European countries for the French Rafale? If it really defended France, and therefore Europe, it would encourage the whole European Union to buy ‘made in France’. Finally, on Algeria, while President Tebboune lets our compatriot Boualem Sansal, who has been a political prisoner for four months, rot, Ms von der Leyen sleeps quietly in Brussels. The resolution of 23 June in this Parliament did not change that. Worse still, this country continues to humiliate France, my country, as shown by the recent Islamist attack in Mulhouse. So I say to the European Commission and its President: Take it back, or you'll risk the Disciplinary Board.

Madam President, since last November, Boualem Sansal, one of the greatest French writers, has been held as a political hostage by Algeria. Despite the efforts of French diplomacy, not only does Algeria refuse to return to us a national we want to recover, but worse: from now on, it refuses to recover its own nationals and delinquents whom we no longer want in France. In five years, France and the European Union have paid almost EUR 1 billion to Algeria. Let us not have our hands trembling in the face of an Algerian government – and I say ‘government’ – which humiliates one of the Member States of Europe – my beautiful country, France! My question is therefore simple, Commissioner: in the resolution, I felt that some political parties were afraid to wrestle with the Algerian government, in particular by making financial aid conditional on Boualem Sansal’s release. Is our money worth more than a man's life? Why would the official voice of Europe, quick to make urgent resolutions to denounce violations of fundamental rights around the world, tremble to make Algeria bend and recover this national who is sick and in need and of Europe and France?

Mr. President, Donald Trump is now the 47th President of the United States, and his agenda is clear: everything for Americans, just for Americans and proud to be American. State of emergency at its borders, war on wokism and expulsion of foreign offenders, all in one evening. It has been done. What about us? At the last European elections, my country, France, sent its largest delegation to this European Parliament, embodied by my party, the Rassemblement national, with a clear message: We are proud to be French, and the patriots are finally back in Europe. To do what? Our compatriots want to decide who returns and who leaves our country, our continent. They want the illegals to be... (The President interrupted the speaker) ... in their port of origin. They want us to eat French in our canteens. They want European and French companies to have priority in public procurement. They want their vote respected. Yes, respected. So before teaching Elon Musk about freedom of expression, start by cutting this cordon sanitaire, which is a cordon of shame, an undemocratic cordon. No one is sick in my group. On the other hand, your Europe is sick. If you don't, be afraid, be afraid. For if, for you, patriotism rhymes with racism, for us, patriotism rhymes with national pride, European pride. Finally, we are not afraid of this new America because we have not finished being French and making France love this Europe and the whole world.

Madam President, Mayotte ravaged, Mamoudzou shaved, but Mayotte standing. Standing up thanks to our police, our gendarmes, our firefighters, who, hand in hand, saved lives from the first minutes following the passage of Cyclone Chido. Today, thanks to my fellow police officers and my comrades in the gendarmerie, the island is protected from looting and violence. Yet many of them have lost everything, but they remain mobilised for the population. I have a thought for the police chief of Mayotte, fellow police officer Patrick Longuet, whom I know well. Its troops, including RAID, were engaged from the beginning of operations, and they are applauded by the population. Yet they are quite alone. Wuambushu 1, Wuambushu 2: No, ladies and gentlemen, this is not Star Wars, but the only answer, very meager, of the State to defend our children mahorais. Despite the commitment of the courageous and valiant CRS 8, which almost lost comrades en route, these operations were unsuccessful. Why? Out of political cowardice in the face of illegal Comorian immigration, which today makes half of the island of foreign origin. And what about the NGOs, who are allowed to do everything? Of those judges who blocked the destruction of the bangas – slums for those who do not know Mayotte? Where are they, at a time when Mayotte is dying? If, today, Mayotte remains France, it is only thanks to our guardian angels, these police officers, these gendarmes, these firefighters, these soldiers, who give everything despite the little they have left on this island. Long live Mayotte! Long live France! Long live our internal security forces and our relief forces, which are the pride of our country!

Mr President, in Marseilles, Socayna, a 24-year-old law student living in a city of modest people, was gunned down in her room by a 16-year-old hit man. In Châteauroux, 15-year-old Matisse was brutally killed by a 15-year-old Afghan minor, already known to police and judges, as usual, unfortunately. In Crepol, 16-year-old Thomas was lynched and stabbed to death, some of the perpetrators were minors. You will notice that I have always cited victims before perpetrators. This is essential in the fight against delinquency. When will this ultra-violence stop killing? To murder our children? When will you have the courage, in France and throughout Europe, to abolish the minority excuse for minors between the ages of 16 and 18? Because, with all due respect to the far-left Syndicate of the Judiciary, here in France, they are not knick-knackers. It's not 1945 with Casimir anymore: They're criminals. Apart from words, recollections, tweets, candles: What have our rulers done? Nothing! They watched the trains pass by with their share of victims. I am angry because, in this House, a former policeman of the Republic, I think I was one of the only ones who had to announce the death of a child – the death of a toddler – to parents with no history, who had given everything to educate their child, right in the eyes and emotion in the throat. To those parents who have lost part of their souls, I want to say that I am fighting for them, for justice to be done and that this culture of apology will never again cause further victims. Together, we must be mobilized against those who murder our youth.

Madam President, this night in France, in Cavaillon, criminals wanted to burn police officers alive by attacking their police station and setting their service vehicles on fire. Cavaillon was once a peaceful city, but it is now under the control of drug traffickers, and the police are often alone in the face of organized mafias. Why would these drug traffickers deprive themselves? This criminal business today represents 3 billion euros per year in France and 30 billion euros per year in Europe. Worse, the French justice system is outdated since 60% of the defendants are under 21 years of age. Europe can act, Europe must act, breaking the taboo of border control, as in Germany where a socialist chancellor, not patriotic but socialist, has restored protection at the gates of his country. It is also necessary to make the pockets of criminals, by collecting dirty money, especially in the Maghreb, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates where drug traffickers – the big guys, as they say in France – will launder the money they make in cities, in difficult neighborhoods and even, today, in rural and peri-urban territories. In France, Mr. Darmanin, the former Minister of the Interior, sacrificed the judicial police. We will rearm it, because it is thanks to the judicial police that we can attack the big thugs, and not just the small strikes, the dealers and the lookouts down the halls of buildings. Courage, because if we do not defend ourselves against these drug terrorists, tomorrow it will be our children who will continue to die against those who run the dirty money printing in our difficult neighborhoods, in France and in Europe.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, having grown up in the heart of the working-class districts of Lille, in the north of France, coming from a city, I have been the first witness, since my building tower, of the laxity of the left which has excused everything, justified everything and forgiven everything to these thugs who so often rot our daily lives. Thirty years of political cowardice have given the keys to our neighbourhoods to drug traffickers, big brothers, Islamists and criminal networks. All this helped by European judges who constantly increase the burden of investigators to facilitate the lives of offenders and transform into a priesthood the lives of investigators who protect above all the victims. Moreover, today, the situation is out of control since it is real mafias who act with formidable coordination and efficiency – which are so lacking in our European police forces –, playing with our rules, our weaknesses, even our abandonment to impose their own rules, including the rule of the strongest. The situation is such that in Belgium, the authorities now fear that their country will become a narco-state. I, this child of a worker who started as a peacekeeper, then a police officer and a police commissioner, was on the front line to fight with my colleagues against these thugs. I have always had the pride of seeing my mother's eyes shine despite my modest social condition, thanks to an ascent that allowed me to rise in the French republican meritocracy. Unfortunately, some kids in my neighborhood didn't follow the same path. For 100 euros a day, they sometimes decided to die under the bullets of the Kalashnikovs to monitor a deal point, or to sell drugs. Ladies and gentlemen, let us wake up! Cartels are shedding blood in our countries to arrogate the keys to our democracies. Worse, the countries that have taken the path of decriminalization, even the legalization of drugs, so dear to the extreme left, today have the knife under their throats, a knife held by these cartels that threaten even members of the government, magistrates, policemen, as recently in the Netherlands. By refusing to protect its borders, the European Union is bringing us to our knees in the face of these mafias. This time, it is our German neighbours who remind us of a reality: the number of migrants arrested in connection with organised crime has more than doubled since 2020. Protecting our borders means protecting our children. Let us stop this culture of social and judicial excuse and replace it with the culture of punishment and execution of sentences. Let us recover our powers so often left to the European judges, as Jordan Bardella had proposed, let us set up this double border. Let us put an end to judicial laxity. Finally, let us put real means, real tools at the disposal of our investigators that European judges sacrifice on the altar of the life of offenders, instead of doing more and more for offenders and less and less for those who protect us and who are the last bulwark that our democracies so badly need today.