Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Refugees: an internal memo from the train excites the far right, then … – Liberation

Always eager arguments enabling it to assert that France foreigners are treated better than the “real French” all beautiful all pure, the far right has seized Tuesday in an internal note of the SNCF suggesting that migrant groups took the train for free. The controversy was so swollen that Xavier Bertrand, campaigning for the regional in the north, is seized on Wednesday.

It begins Tuesday morning with tweets Marion Maréchal-Le Pen and Robert Ménard, the first being FN candidate in regional elections in Paca, the second mayor of Béziers supported by the Front. “The SNCF offers free train for migrants … And why not the restaurant offered life?” examines it.

“Avoid any risk of conflict”

In support of his rant, the FN candidate in turn publishes an internal note of the SNCF. What is she saying ? That as of Monday, October 5, “some stops may be issued, if the conditions allow, bookings 0 euro for exceptional measures to facilitate the placement of a group on the train and maintain comfort Travellers’

Translation by SNCF itself, which reacted to AFP. the company has effectively implemented this opportunity to free reservation “to assign numbered seats to these people so that they remain together and that avoids any risk of conflict between travelers if they ever were to occupy reserved seats by others “. So there is “no free tickets for migrants,” explains Christophe Piednoël, news director of SNCF, as “these people are controlled as others must be provided with a ticket like the others, can be a PV like any other “. But the teams, ” either at the station or on board trains, were called to discernment, “ he added.

Specifically, the controllers continue to check the tickets of all passengers, but if they fall on a group of refugees lacking ticket, rather than feeding them to the next station or verbalize systematically, they can assign them second class seats.

“With tickets”

and Christophe Piednoël specify: “For us, these are not fraudsters looking to take advantage of the system. These are people who are in an exceptional situation often distress and fatigue, it is normal to manage humanely. “ It also stresses that ” migrants traveling almost entirely with tickets, because they are often provided money for their trip, and they are also supported by associations that support the amount of notes. “

Despite this development, the excitement also won Wednesday Xavier Bertrand, candidate Republicans in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy region, where the note was also circulated. The applicant wrote an open letter to the President of the SNCF to ask him “ explanation ” and “ in any case, tell us what solution you hear implement to end this right pass . “

In the afternoon, the deputy Republicans Gerald Darmanin, Xavier Bertrand member of the campaign, brought the topic the National Assembly during questions to the Government, Manuel Valls and by calling:

We learned that the train allowed not to control migrants, or worse to let them travel at zero , preferably in first class, second class, Mr. Prime Minister. Not only the train going strong, but she also seems to accept this astonishing decision.

In fact, the train going strong, as we have seen above, since it assumes that policy. But rather than support her in this choice, Manuel Valls preferred to ensure that “ no instructions have been given to the railway releasing control [tickets], on the contrary .” Conclusion of the Prime Minister: “ that information does not make sense and do not believe everything that is said in the press .”

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