Is “Dany the Red” becoming “Dany the Brown”? Sunday evening on LCI, Daniel Cohn-Bendit made a very surprising outing given his ideological background. The former leader of May 68 actually used vocabulary usually used by the hardest fringe of the extreme right to talk about the situation in Mayotte.
During a weekly program with former Minister of National Education Luc Ferry, this left-wing figure returned to the “exceptional” migratory “situation” in the archipelago. According to him, “we must not discuss the problem ideologically, we must see Mayotte, it is not France, we must not confuse it”. A false statement since Mayotte is a department. The archipelago is therefore 100% part of France.
The “migratory firmness” of Retailleau, Valls and Lecornu
And the former MEP continued by insisting that it was necessary to “slow down and make impossible this immigration which is truly a great upheaval, a great replacement of the population”. He therefore called to see the proposals of Bruno Retailleau, Manuel Valls and Sébastien Lecornu, respectively the Ministers of the Interior, Overseas and Armed Forces. The latter had in fact published a little earlier in Le Figaro a platform to call for “migratory firmness” in Mayotte.
On LCI, Daniel Cohn-Bendit therefore took up the particularly controversial rhetoric of the “great replacement”. This thesis by essayist Renaud Camus focuses on the consequences of the next waves of immigration to Europe. An idea that the former MEP has fought until now. It is now “a truth” for him, at least in Mayotte, explaining that he is “not blind”.
Since then, the reactions of several figures on the left have shown annoyance and also disappointment, particularly among environmentalists. “With complete peace of mind, Cohn-Bendit is taking up the concept of “great replacement”,” noted environmentalist MP Sarah Legrain. Le Figaro also noted the reaction of Sandrine Rousseau. On X, the environmentalist MP was scathing by writing “Shame on you Dany. » At LFI too, the criticisms were rife. Arnaud Saint-Martin thus described Daniel Cohn-Bendit as a “sixty-eight boomer on the path to fascist radicalization. “.