Parts of France are now ‘unliveable’ due to migrants ‘who want their culture to prevail’, says Brazil’s ‘Tropical Trump’ president
Brazil’s president elect Jair Bolsonaro will take office on January 1 2019
On Tuesday he said in a live video feed that French migrants were not integrating
Mimicking Trump’s rhetoric while campaigning for the US presidency, Bolsonaro claimed ‘they don’t give up their roots…they want to make their culture prevail’
By MIRANDA ALDERSLEY
DAILYMAIL.COM
19 December 2018
Brazil’s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro has said parts of France have become ‘unliveable’ because of migrants, employing rhetoric similar to Donald Trump’s before he became the US president.
Bolsonaro, who takes office on January 1, made the xenophobic remarks late Tuesday in a live video feed on his Facebook page.
The extreme right-wing politician was elected in October on a hardline anti-crime and anti-corruption platform and has been dubbed the ‘Tropical Trump.’
‘Everybody knows what is happening in France. Some parts of France are simply unliveable,’ Bolsonaro said on Facebook.
He said that, despite a good welcome by the French, migrants were not integrating.
‘You know how those people are, right? They have something in them, they don’t give up their roots and they want to make their culture, their acquired rights and their privileges prevail,’ he said.
‘France is suffering because of that. Part of the population, part of the military, some of the institutions are starting to complain about that. We don’t want that for Brazil.’
It was not clear what recent events prompted Bolsonaro’s outburst. Nor did he explicitly say whether he was referring to Muslim migrants, though those with North African heritage form the biggest group of migrants in France after Europeans.
France is currently in the grip of ‘yellow vest’ anti-government protests unrelated to migration.
It has been rocked by a number of recent deadly attacks, notably in November 2015 in which 130 people were murdered in Paris by radicalized French and Belgian gunmen, and last week in the city of Strasbourg where a French ex-convict killed five people in a rampage claimed by the Islamic State group.
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