GETTY A new poll shows that the majority of the French do not want any more migrants

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Carried out by Ifop, a French market research and polling agency, the survey revealed that 62 per cent of French people want to stem the tide of illegal immigrants coming into their country. The results of the opinion poll, conducted for French newspaper Atlantico, show that the people are becoming increasingly frustrated by the migrant crisis, and have taken a much tougher stance on the issue compared to last spring.

According to Jérôme Fourquet, the director of opinion research at Ifop, the number of people in favour of integrating migrants into French society is down by eight percentage points compared to April this year, and is now at 38 per cent. This is the lowest result recorded since the Paris November 13 terror attack on the capital last year, after which the French were strongly opposed to assimilating migrants into their society.

GETTY Thousands of migrants poured into France over the summer, putting a strain on social housing

At that time, people knew that some of the members of the ISIS unit that carried out the attacks, which left 89 people dead and more than 200 wounded, had managed to slip into France by posing as war-weary migrants. Many citizens did soften their resistance to sharing the burden of the EU migrant crisis in the months following the attacks but this changed again after thousands of migrants started pouring into France over the summer, putting a strain on social housing and government finances.

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