Former Head of French Intelligence Agency:
France Must Drastically Reduce Immigration
Pierre Brochand, the former head of the French intelligence agency DGSE (Direction générale de la Sécurité extérieure), which is equivalent to the British MI6 and the American CIA, has been warning, Cassandra-like, for several years, with increasing alarm, that French immigration policies must be drastically changed if France is not to impoverish itself, and descend into Third-World status, with the additional distinct possibility of sinking into a civil war between the indigenous French and the Muslim economic migrants who have been allowed by successive French governments to settle in the country without consideration of the consequences.
More on M. Brochand’s warning, his vox clamantis in deserto (a voice crying in the wilderness), can be found here: “France must drastically reduce immigration or become Third World country, says former head of intelligence agency,” by Oliver Bault, Remix News, April 13, 2023:
It is not the first time former DGSE director and former ambassador Pierre Brochand has made public calls for a complete change to immigration policies while warning against France becoming poorer and possibly descending into civil war. However, hearing him doing so during a discussion with a top civil servant in the person of the director of the French Office for Immigration and Integration (OFII) on France Culture, a state-owned radio station that is part of the very left-wing and pro-immigration Radio France network, is something unusual in Emmanuel Macron’s France.
True, the presenter of the April 1 radio show titled “Face à l’immigration” (“Facing immigration”) was Alain Finkielkraut, a philosopher, writer, and radio presenter who is not particularly known for his political correctness, in particular on the subject of immigration.
Didier Leschi, OFII’s director, did not try to hide the true numbers about immigration like Interior Minister Générald Darmanin usually does. So, both men, Didier Leschi and former intelligence chief Pierre Brochand, were able to talk about an agreed-upon set of data regarding immigration levels: 320,000 new residence permits delivered in 2022 plus 156,000 asylum seekers and an additional number of 400,000 illegal immigrants benefiting from free medical care, plus a few hundred thousand who have not yet asked for the free migrants’ medical care scheme, which means their number is unknown. As Leschi commented during the radio show, such illegal immigrants are usually granted a residence permit after five years of illegal residence in France. This, of course, acts as a pull factor contributing to the rising wave of illegal immigrants that are now flooding Italy.
Those illegal immigrants enter Western Europe mainly through Italy, which is closest to the Tunisian and Libyan ports where the smugglers’ boats, overloaded with Muslim migrants, leave from to cross the Mediterranean. But they do not stay in Italy. Many of them head to France, where the benefits the government provides to immigrants are much more extensive than in Italy.
Reacting to those numbers, Brochand characterized the kind of immigration France has been experiencing for the last 50 years as “endured” and not chosen, “massive,” “on the rise,” “concentrated in isolated clusters,” “creating a snowball effect,” “with no historical precedence,” and “driven not by political decision-makers nor by economic players but by judges.” In addition, it is “culturally remote as it comes almost exclusively from what we used to call the Third World,” “conflictual,” “economically dysfunctional,” “costly for public finances,” “unpopular according to polls,” and “mostly irreversible.”
As a matter of fact, Brochand insisted, such massive immigration of low-qualified people from failed states has been pulling France down, making it poorer and causing a sharp degradation in the quality of its public services….
Immigration undoubtedly leads to lower salaries for the less qualified workers, and the only beneficiaries among workers are the immigrants themselves, as they see their income increase manyfold compared with what they could earn in their home countries. At the same time, the employers benefit by paying less for the work done, and the countries of origin are happy with the money transferred home by immigrant workers, which also means money is flowing out of their host country. Brochard estimates that this flow of money out of France amounts to an astounding $1 trillion since the 1970s.
Leschi himself had to acknowledge during that discussion on France Culture that there have never been so many immigrants in France, with 7 million people (out of 68 million inhabitants) who were born abroad, including 2.5 million who have since acquired citizenship….
Curiously, on April 9, the head of the French Catholic episcopate, archbishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort, said about immigration on the KTO TV channel that “those who are delusional are the ones who try to make us believe that it can be stopped.”
His remark would appear to apply to former DGSE director Pierre Brochand, with the Catholic archbishop insisting that we must prepare to better welcome arrivals and be ready to live in a different society….
The Archbishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort may have a redolent name, but his is a counsel of despair. He defames as “delusional” those who, like Brochand, are alarmed but unwilling to give up, unlike Moulins-Beaufort, for if they were in total despair they would not even try to sound a tocsin, and to outlline, as Brochand does, a program to confront the peril of mass immigration of Muslims into France.
Pierre Brochand will not succumb, as the Archbishop is clearly prepared to do, to what Moulins-Beaufort considers to be inevitable. He knows he is not “delusional”; it is those who are minimizing, or ignoring, the threat to the French nation of the current wave of immigration, who are the truly “delusional.” He is not prepared to give up on France, not prepared to have his grandchildren leave France for other shores, autres rivages, most likely in North America, especially Québec. The truly “delusional” are those who, like the Archbishop, pretend to themselves that all manner of things shall be well in the end, as long as the French offer a “better welcome to arrivals” (they don’t feel sufficiently welcomed, apparently) and are “ready to live in a different society.”
Why should they do either? As to “better welcoming” these Muslim economic migrants, how much more should the French state lavish on these immigrants who came, uninvited, to France? They already receive free or heavily subsidized housing, free medical care, free education, unemployment benefits (without having a work history), family allowances, and more. This aid is costing the French state billions of euros every year. And in addition, Brochand calculates that since the 1970s, the total amount of money that immigrants send back to their countries of origin to a staggering one trillion dollars. What more must they do to make these immigrants feel “welcome”? Provide summer homes in Biarritz or St. Tropez? Apartments on the Avenue Foch? Sailboats on the Seine? A chateau along the Loire? And why should the French be asked to prepare “to live in a different society”? Why not, instead, mobilize the “plain people” of France to throw out the political and media elites who have not been up to the task of preventing any more mass immigration, and replace them with people such as Eric Zemmour, who in 2022 ran unsuccessfully for President, or Philippe De Villiers, or Alain Finkielkraut, or Marine Le Pen, people who have a keen sense of what must be done to ensure that the French will not have to live, unwillingly, in a very “different society”?
Pierre Brochand, perfectly lucid and keen-sighted, not at all “delusional” as the intolerably complacent Archbishop suggests, spells out the immigration problem in great and alarming detail, not to spread despair, but as a way to encourage his fellow Frenchmen to think rationally, and even with hope, about the problem. He sets out what he believes can, and must, be done, if not to put a complete halt to Muslim immigration, at least to greatly reduce it to manageable proportions. This is not a counsel of despair, but rather, an encouragement to act. The futures of his children and grandchildren in France clearly fill him with anxiety, but instead of letting such thoughts paralyze him, Brochand chooses to offer an outline of what must be done to put an end to the mass immigration of Muslims from both North and sub-Saharan Africa, and to engage in a relentless policy of lowering the benefits made available to immigrants already in France, making France less welcoming in the hope that some will choose to re-migrate back to their countries of origin. Unlike the Archbishop, whose Church is universal in its calling, Pierre Brochand thinks in terms of the nation-state; he remains a French patriot, a nationalist in a good sense, who doesn’t want to see his country –“douce France, cher pays de mon enfance,” to strike a musical note — transformed into something alien, impoverished, and violent.
In the same conversation with Leschi and Finkielkraut, the former intelligence agency head said that in France already 40 percent of children aged between 0 and 4 are of immigrant origin.
Brochand sets out what he believes must be done to avoid an implosion of the state, or to prevent a succession of violent explosions between Muslims and the indigenous French, leading to a state of open civil war.
“We have reached such a point,” Brochand said, “that the reaction can only be extreme.”
The reaction, in Brochand’s eyes, can only be to divide legal immigration by 10, divide the access to nationality by 10, divide by a multiple of 10 the visas for nationals of high-risk countries, cancel everything that makes France socially attractive, and abolish all the rewards granted to cheating — like regularizing the stay of illegal immigrants or giving them access to free medical care. In addition, France must reduce the size of the diasporas by not renewing residence permits and have a very targeted natalist policy to boost the ethnic French population.
To that purpose, the most important thing to do, according to Brochand, is “to take back control of the legal instruments that are indispensable for action, that have passed into the hands of the judges, and that must be given back to the legislators by various means.”
Brochand also advocates just ignoring “the intimidating discourse that is imposed on us and in particular the accusations of racism and fascism,” which he considers to be pure moral blackmail reflecting a specific ideology.
“Racist,” “fascist,” and “Islamophobe” — these are the trinity of words meretriciously employed to shut people up, to keep them from expressing their alarm over mass migration by Muslims. Brochand describes these words as a kind of “moral blackmail,” and counsels us, quite rightly, to ignore them.
In what may be troubling news for the French population, the former diplomat and former intelligence director does not think there is currently enough courage among the French political class to do all this, so for the time being, France seems set to continue on its very dangerous course, increasingly becoming the immigration-sick man of Europe.
But, Brochand shows by example, all is not yet lost, Cometh the hour, cometh the man. There is still hope of political change percolating upwards from the people to those who claim to lead them. Not at once, but there is steady progress shown in public opinion. New opinion polls confirm that the majority of the French now believe that Muslim immigration must be greatly reduced. Here is the latest evidence of how support for immigration has plummeted:
A recent national study revealed that almost 1 in 2 people who affiliate with French left-leaning parties think there are now too many immigrants in the country.
The number of those on the left of French politics who believe the level of immigration into the country is too high has almost doubled in the last four years, according to a new study.
An in-depth survey, conducted by French research and consulting group, BVA France, observed a hardening on the topic of immigration across the French public when compared with the same study conducted in 2018.
Nearly seven out of 10 French people (69 percent) believe “there are too many immigrants in France today,” a view that has seen an increase in support of six points compared to the 2018 study. However, when analyzing the attitude of those who affiliate with left-leaning political parties, this statement is supported by 48 percent, up 21 points in just five years.
The notion that France now welcomes too many immigrants is naturally one that receives majority support from voters for the National Rally (95 percent) and Reconquête! (93 percent). However, even within Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s left-wing populist party, La France Insoumise, a majority of supporters (51 percent) agree with the statement, and one in two (50 percent) supporters of Europe Écologie Les Verts (“The Greens”) agree with the statement. This is an increase of 20 percent and 22 percent, respectively, in support of the statement among those who affiliate themselves with the two left-wing parties when compared to the 2018 study.
Anti-immigration attitudes continue to steadily increase, and harden, among the people of France. This is the key finding of the latest opinion polls: seven out of ten French people believe “there are too many immigrants in France today.” Macron and his ilk are yesterday’s men; they do not represent, in their flailing about on the subject of immigration, the people of France, who now express strong popular opposition to further immigration. Nor do they seem capable of grappling with the problem of those economic migrants already in the country who are such a drain on France’s wealth. But that is not the only loss. Brochand says that since the 1970s, in addition to what has been spent on the migrants in benefits, more billions were sent home by these migrants to their countries of origin. He estimates the total cost of these Muslim migrants to France over the past 50 years, amounts to one trillion dollars.
The current leaders must be replaced by those who understand, and share, Pierre Brochand’s alarm. It is not “delusional,” as the Archbishop claims, to think that nothing can be done, first to halt immigration from Muslim lands, and second, to make France less welcoming to those Muslim immigrants who are already in the country. Every time Brochand appears on television and speaks as he has been speaking, every time Alain Finkielkraut manages to interview him and the other opponents of Muslim immigration like Renaud Camus (who first coined the phrase “The Great Replacement”), every time Eric Zemmour makes a speech or comes out with a best-selling book such as Le Suicide français, selling hundreds of thousands of copies, which warns the French, yet again, about the threat of this mass Muslim migration, and about a political class that refuses to see what is staring them in the face, progress is made.
Macron is clearly not up to the task of dealing with immigration. Nor is his Interior Minister, Gerard Darmanin, who once seemed to hold such promise. But there are mayors all over France who see the effect of Muslim migrants in their cities, and who are prepared to act at the local level. There are brilliant journalists like Zemmour, who in 2021 started his own political party, La Reconquête, which is devoted to one issue: Muslim immigration. In all the polls, Marine Le Pen is now predicted to win the next election. Not nearly as brilliant as Zemmour, but solid and reliable, she has promised to drastically curtail immigration from Muslim countries. Can France hold on until Macron’s second and final quinquennium is over, and he is replaced by someone who has absorbed the lesson Pierre Brochand has for the last several years been trying to make the French public hear?
The whole point is that it is going to be very difficult for France to remain French instead of becoming a majority Muslim society within a few decades. But each day that goes by without addressing this problem will make it that much more difficult to fix.
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