The former chief of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency speaks candidly about the organisation, which often sent invitations to migrants at the behest of the European Commission.

„I am a witness and a key player who has realized that urgent action is needed to counteract the European Commission’s negative action on migration. I came to realise that the European Commission didn’t see illegal immigration as a problem but as a project,” Fabrice Leggeri, former head of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex), said in an interview with Remix News. Leggeri has been at the heart of the fight against illegal immigration.

He became acutely aware of these facts with the arrival of the Ursula von der Leyen-led European Commission at the end of 2019, and in particular with the installment of Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson. He noted that Johansson is a left-winger who identifies as a social democrat, but started her political life in Sweden as a member of the Left Party – Communists (VPK).

„I saw the extremely negative side of this European Commission influenced by pro-immigration NGO lobbies, and all of this against a backdrop of activism of a certain left, the far left, and the Greens within the European Parliament. All this motivated me to act because I realised that when you’re a civil servant, even if you have high responsibilities, which was my case, there are limits to what you can do. So either you resign yourself to the situation and keep quiet, or you quit your job. The third solution, when you really have a sense of public service and public interest, is to enter politics,”

said the Frontex ex-chief, who is now a European Parliamentary candidate for France’s National Rally, the party of Marine Le Pen. Leggeri recalled that what particularly shocked him was the change in the Frontex’s mission.

„Right away, at the end of October 2019, when I first saw her, Johansson said: ‘But with this European corps, why do we need weapons and uniforms? Migrants come out of love and your job is to welcome them. Europe is an ageing continent, and whether you like it or not, you have to welcome them’. That’s when I said to myself that our mandate has changed completely, as the mission for which I was elected and re-elected for a second term was to build a European body that would be like a border police force assisting EU member states,”

recalled Leggeri, who chose the National Rally because he wants to serve in opposition to Ursula von der Leyen. Leggeri believes that action against illegal migration must be taken at both the national and EU level.

„The European election serves the purpose of sending National Rally members to the European Parliament. If I’m elected, the mission I’d like to contribute to is, firstly, to build alliances with MEPs from different countries whose sensitivities are similar to ours, and who have the wind in their sails, at least when it comes to immigration and borders. The idea is that if we control up to a third of the European Parliament together, we’ll be able to have weight as a blocking minority that has to be taken into consideration. We’ll probably be able to influence at least the EPP’s right wing, which will feel closer to our eurosceptic third of the European Parliament than to the left and far left, not only where immigration and borders are concerned, but also the Green pact, for example. We’ve already seen moves in this direction in the current legislature, which is nearing its end,”

the National Rally MEP candidate expressed as long-term goals, adding:

„At the National Rally, we don’t want to have European commissioners like Ylva Johansson telling us that immigration is good, that we should let everyone in, and that we shouldn’t stop illegal immigrants from crossing borders. Whenever a minister spoke of the need to control borders and spoke out against illegal immigration, and against the Migration Pact’s relocation scheme, Commissioner Johansson would ostensibly start knitting, signaling she not interested in what they say and for them to go to hell.”

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Beyond the issue of borders and immigration, there are some other crucial areas of strategic importance for the future of Europeans, which the European Commission has appropriated despite having not right to do so.

„I am concerned to see the European Commission, and therefore European commissioners with the whole European Commission bureaucracy behind them – whose sociology I’m familiar with – trying to deal with extremely strategic and sensitive security issues when the commission doesn’t have the institutional competence to do so. Moreover, it has a biased mentality on certain issues,”

he said and recalled that the European Commission has no scruples about influencing national elections. Roughly 48 hours before the Italian elections, Von der Leyen threatened Italians with financial sanctions if they did not vote correctly, in other words if they elected a coalition that would make Giorgia Meloni prime minister. „So it is clear that there is this kind of intimidation and blackmail against certain member states,” he noted.