The following video shows the popular French radio commentator Eric Zemmour talking on the radio about the recent kerfuffle between France and Italy over the NGO migrant-rescue ship Aquarius (which has now finally reached Spain).
Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
00:00 | We don’t necessarily agree. | |
00:04 | “We don’t necessarily agree” with Eric Zemmour. Hello, Eric. —Good day. —The controversy | |
00:08 | concerning the migrant boat Aquarius caused a diplomatic crisis between France and Italy | |
00:12 | and it is dividing the marching majority. —Well, “I know you are, but what am I?” | |
00:16 | — we all remember this nursery rhyme. The EU is | |
00:20 | a large playground where everyone accuses the other of cynicism, | |
00:25 | where everyone accuses the other of hypocrisy. Where everyone is playing a hypocrite, | |
00:29 | hypocrite and a half. A great contest where our president isn’t a wallflower. When he denounces | |
00:33 | the role played by cynicism and irresponsibility on the part of the Italian government, | |
00:37 | Emmanuel Macron is forgetting that in Summer of 2017, while one hundred thousand migrants | |
00:41 | were flooding the Italian shores over the period of just a couple of months, he gave an order | |
00:45 | to his interior minister to not open the borders, and to channel all the illegals | |
00:49 | to Italy. This is that contrast between Macron the candidate, | |
00:54 | who promoted an open France, and Macron the president who understood well that | |
00:58 | the vast majority of the country wished only for closed [borders]. | |
01:02 | This is what some En Marche [Macron’s party] deputies seem not to understand, who award themselves | |
01:05 | 15 minutes of fame in the media with a humanist narrative of “openness”. One can, in this Festival | |
01:10 | of Hypocrisy, award a Special Trophy to nationalists from Corsica | |
01:14 | who offered to open their harbours all while knowing full well that the French government | |
01:18 | wouldn’t allow them to do it and that their population wouldn’t like it. | |
01:22 | Are you suggesting that hypocrisy is a French monopoly? —Oh, no, the hypocrisy and cynicism contest | |
01:27 | doesn’t stop with France. Italian Interior Minister Salvini | |
01:31 | managed a fantastic political operation in the last municipal elections: his party, the Lega, | |
01:35 | crushed everybody, allies and adversaries. | |
01:39 | As for the Spanish government, they opened their harbours to this boat; they know | |
01:43 | that this way they’ll be worshipped by all the European media. They also know that most | |
01:47 | migrants won’t stay in Spain. At one time, Italians were also playing | |
01:52 | this game, until French and German closed their borders. | |
01:56 | Brussels congratulated Madrid. One more example of hypocrisy | |
02:00 | The countries [where the migrants arrive] — Italy and Greece — can’t carry on like that anymore. | |
02:04 | And others don’t want them [migrants] anymore: those who say it, such as the Eastern Europeans, are | |
02:07 | branded “the evil ones”, but those, like the French or the Germans, who don’t say it, to stay in | |
02:12 | the good guys’ camp, pay the Turks or Libyans to keep their migrants | |
02:17 | on their territory. The contest for the Hypocrisy Trophy doesn’t stop at the country level. | |
02:21 | The NGOs who are pretending to be the saviors of humanity aren’t saving anybody, | |
02:25 | because there isn’t anybody to save. The migrants have the phone number of the | |
02:29 | Italian Navy to call for help the very second they put one toe in the Mediterranean Sea. | |
02:33 | The NGOs and the smugglers are making very good living by exploiting the migrants and | |
02:37 | the countries who accept them. So, as our prime minister Edouard Philippe says, there | |
02:42 | is no hope for a national solution for this problem: it can only be a European [solution]. | |
02:46 | Oh, well, but it’s Europe itself which made the solution of the problem impossible | |
02:50 | with the decision of the European Court of Justice forbidding Italy | |
02:54 | to turn away the boats and send them back to where they came from, because those boats could | |
02:58 | and should be brought by our navy to the harbours from where they originated. | |
03:03 | It is done that way by countries such as Japan or Australia, who don’t welcome | |
03:07 | any migrants, and who had no corpses in their territorial waters. Too simple. | |
03:11 | Too efficient. You can tell that those people aren’t European. — Eric Zemmour. |