French intelligence ex-chief has warned about the threat for years

French intelligence ex-chief has warned about the threat for years

From 2002 to 2008, Pierre Brochand was head of the Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE) and ambassador of France, in particular to Hungary and Israel. He rarely speaks in the media, but in an exclusive interview with Le Figaro, he shared his views on the bloody migrant riots in France, which lasted almost a week.

POLITICS JULY 10. 2023 14:01

Pierre Brochand was at the helm of the intelligence agency for six years, but he never stopped working. Since 2019, he has been warning that if the government continues to allow the masses of illegal migrants into the country at this rate, sooner or later there will be unrest and deaths due to the growing tension. The expert was proved right in the end, with the most brutal series of riots in recent years first erupting on the outskirts of Paris, when police shot and killed a young migrant who was being chased by officers for violating several traffic rules and attempting to flee a roadside inspection. In the process, he endangered the lies of many pedestrians before he was stopped.

If we do nothing, or if we do little, we will either be heading towards a gradual collapse of social confidence in France, i.e. towards a society where the quality of life is collapsing and where it will become less and less pleasant to live, or towards confrontations through successive riots, which will turn France into a country where it is impossible to live,

Mr Brochand said last April.

In an interview published recently on Le Figaro’s website, Mr Brochand revealed, as the magazine puts it, „the deadly coctail between a society of individuals based on openness and democracy, and the arrival of complete diasporas from a completely different cultural background” during the riots.

The former spy chief’s analysis stands in stark contrast to Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin’s claims that immigration has nothing to do with the bloody migrant riots. This perfectly illustrates Mr Brochand’s pessimistic statement on France Culture last April, when he said he believed that the French political class lacked the sufficient courage to do what was necessary to avoid the worst-case scenario, an outright confrontation.

„Closing the borders in the name of the precautionary principle – which is the Polish way – has never been seriously considered in our country,” Mr Brochand told Le Figaro after the recent riots in which left more than 700 members of the security forces injured, some 4,000 people arrested and several towns devastated. Mr Brochand believes that the root cause is a mix of humanism and economic interests, i.e. the need to import cheap labour.

According to Mr Brochand, the changes that have led to the current disintegration of French society occurred in the 1970s, when France was transformed from a modern nation-state into a society of individuals. Along with the immigration of workers, France began witnessing a trend that gradually developed into the immigration of settlers. Mr Brochand uses the French term „immigration de peuplement,” which can be translated as „colonial immigration.” This shift to a society of individuals has created what he describes as the „scissor effect.” Therefore, according to Mr Brochand, internal divisions are a natural tendency of Western European multicultural societies.

The riots, which lasted almost a week, have turned the streets into a living nightmare, with many cars set on fire, shops looted and even municipal buildings burnt down.

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france, illegal migrants, migration