{"id":1374087,"date":"2022-03-13T10:10:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T14:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1374087"},"modified":"2022-03-13T10:11:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T14:11:00","slug":"euro-mp-claims-african-migrants-exploiting-ukraine-war-to-enter-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/euro-mp-claims-african-migrants-exploiting-ukraine-war-to-enter-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro MP Claims African Migrants Exploiting Ukraine War to Enter EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feuro-mp-claims-african-migrants-exploiting-ukraine-war-to-enter-eu%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1374087&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">African migrants, along with a host of other nationalities, are exploiting the war in Ukraine to enter France, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) has claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Nicolas Bay MEP has claimed that African migrants are using refugee channels aimed at helping those fleeing the war in Ukraine to enter France.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Ultimately, the politician believes around one-third of migrants using the route are not from Ukrainian, a figure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lefigaro.fr\/actualite-france\/guerre-en-ukraine-un-non-ukrainien-sur-trois-parmi-les-refugies-en-france-20220308\">suggested<\/a> in a recent article published in\u00a0<em>Le Figaro<\/em>\u00a0but hotly disputed by official sources.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/politique\/article\/2022\/03\/12\/des-responsables-de-droite-et-d-extreme-droite-deplorent-la-presence-de-migrants-extra-europeens-parmi-les-refugies-ukrainiens_6117270_823448.html\">According<\/a> to\u00a0<em>Le Monde<\/em>, a number of French right-wing populists have denounced\u00a0the alleged use of refugee routes by non-Ukrainian economic migrants, with Bay, the vice-president of presidential candidate Eric Zemmour\u2019s party\u00a0Reconqu\u00eat (Reconquest) perhaps being the most prominent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]oday a third of the refugees who pass through Ukraine who do not come from Ukraine, but\u2026 come from sub-Saharan Africa in particular\u2026 who use this new migratory route to come to Europe,\u201d the publication reports the French MEP as saying.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Bay also emphasised that France has an obligation to help Ukrainian refugees, saying that those coming from the country are \u201cpart of our civilisation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are those who come for economic reasons, who weigh down our public accounts and our social accounts, and the Ukrainians towards whom we have a duty of European solidarity, of course,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Le Monde <\/em>went\u00a0on to note that others from both France\u2019s traditional and populist right have repeated the figure, which appears to be sourced from an article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lefigaro.fr\/actualite-france\/guerre-en-ukraine-un-non-ukrainien-sur-trois-parmi-les-refugies-en-france-20220308\">published<\/a> in\u00a0<em>Le Figaro <\/em>titled \u2018War in Ukraine: one in three non-Ukrainians among refugees in France\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>However, the French authorities have disputed the number of migrants abusing the system, claiming that there was a question of dual citizenship at play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have situations of dual nationality which are not easy to deal with,\u201d said the director-general of the French office for immigration and integration, Didier Leschi, in explaining the figures.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Ben voyons ! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AvbbJ73mXa\">https:\/\/t.co\/AvbbJ73mXa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Zemmour (@ZemmourEric) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZemmourEric\/status\/1502766215097462798?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The controversy surrounding non-Ukrainian migrants allegedly abusing Ukrainian refugee flows to enter France has gone viral online.<\/p>\n<p>One image \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aurelientache\/status\/1502621185443520513?s=21\">posted<\/a> by leftist French National Assembly member\u00a0Aur\u00e9lien Tach\u00e9 \u2014 is captioned with the line \u201cMeeting in Cergy of refugees who arrived from Ukraine, after a long journey\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Many replies to the post highlighted the fact that the image only appears to show refugees of African ethnicity, with French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZemmourEric\/status\/1502766215097462798\">retweeting<\/a> the image to his large online follower base.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you Aur\u00e9lien Tach\u00e9 for participating in the necessary re-information on the subject of \u2018Ukrainian refugees\u2019,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Samuel_Lafont\/status\/1502753075492233221\">wrote<\/a> Zemmour\u2019s digital strategy chief Samuel Lafont in response to the leftist politician\u2019s post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere are the refugees coming from Ukraine that Aur\u00e9lien Tach\u00e9 boasts of welcoming,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jfpoisson78\/status\/1502665819402162180\">replied<\/a> another staunch Zemmour ally, Jean-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Poisson. \u201cThis charitable exhibitionism is insulting to real Ukrainian refugees, and reveals a hidden migratory reality. Let\u2019s quickly get rid of this political oligarchy that despises everything and everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet another Zemmour ally, Damien Rieu \u2014 who previously served as a parliamentary assistant for a\u00a0Rassemblement National (National Rally) official \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DamienRieu\/status\/1502658983055794183\">posted<\/a> an image in response to the leftist\u2019s picture that labels the continent of Africa as \u201cUkraine\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Black people are such a small share of the population in Ukraine that they are not even included as an individual category in <a href=\"http:\/\/2001.ukrcensus.gov.ua\/eng\/results\/general\/nationality\/\">census data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wh6CKy4CQp\">pic.twitter.com\/wh6CKy4CQp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Damien Rieu (@DamienRieu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DamienRieu\/status\/1502658983055794183?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African migrants, along with a host of other nationalities, are exploiting the war in Ukraine to enter France, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) has claimed. 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