Why is Eric Besson, the Minister for Immigration, Integration and National Identity Frances most hated person?
The French newsweekly Marianne calls him “the most hated man in France.” A Socialist legislator recently compared him to Pierre Laval – the wartime French official who most enthusiastically collaborated with the nation’s Nazi occupiers. Such contempt isn’t usually directed at someone in a rather anonymous cabinet role. But Eric Besson, the Minister for Immigration, Integration and National Identity, is different: he’s currently overseeing a national debate on French identity that detractors on both the left and the right say stigmatizes minorities and immigrants. And yet, despite the fierce criticism and controversy, he’s the cabinet member President Nicolas Sarkozy is relying on most to secure conservative gains in regional elections in March.
The French newsweekly Marianne calls him “the most hated man in France.” A Socialist legislator recently compared him to Pierre Laval – the wartime French official who most enthusiastically collaborated with the nation’s Nazi occupiers. Such contempt isn’t usually directed at someone in a rather anonymous cabinet role. But Eric Besson, the Minister for Immigration, Integration and National Identity, is different: he’s currently overseeing a national debate on French identity that detractors on both the left and the right say stigmatizes minorities and immigrants. And yet, despite the fierce criticism and controversy, he’s the cabinet member President Nicolas Sarkozy is relying on most to secure conservative gains in regional elections in March. As the Marianne headline attests, there’s something in Besson that just about everyone in France can detest. A former Socialist party official, Besson is considered the consummate traitor by the left after defecting from the 2007 presidential ca
Sarkozy Stands By France’s Hated Immigration Minister The French newsweekly Marianne calls him “the most hated man in France.” A Socialist legislator recently compared him to Pierre Laval —the wartime French official who most enthusiastically collaborated with the nation’s Nazi occupiers. Such contempt isn’t usually directed at someone in a rather anonymous cabinet role. But Eric Besson, the Minister for Immigration, Integration and National Identity, is different: he’s currently overseeing a national debate on French identity that detractors on both the left and the right say stigmatizes minorities and immigrants. And yet, despite the fierce criticism and controversy, he’s the cabinet member President Nicolas Sarkozy is relying on most to secure conservative gains in regional elections in March. As the Marianne headline attests, there’s something in Besson that just about everyone in France can detest. A former Socialist party official, Besson is considered the consummate traitor by t
The French newsweekly Marianne calls him “the most hated man in France.” A Socialist legislator recently compared him to Pierre Laval – the wartime French official who most enthusiastically collaborated with the nation’s Nazi occupiers. Such contempt isn’t usually directed at someone in a rather anonymous cabinet role. But Eric Besson, the Minister for Immigration, Integration and National Identity, is different: he’s currently overseeing a national debate on French identity that detractors on both the left and the right say stigmatizes minorities and immigrants. And yet, despite the fierce criticism and controversy, he’s the cabinet member President Nicolas Sarkozy is relying on most to secure conservative gains in regional elections in March. Sources: http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091221/wl_time/08599194871400;_ylt=ArQc1002.
