Marion Maréchal Le Pen, the niece of Marine Le Pen, is a leader of the Front National in France. In the interview below, Ms. Le Pen discusses the deficiencies of French immigration policy in the wake of the terrorist attack on a Christmas market in Berlin.

Like her aunt, Marion Le Pen prefers to use the terms “radical Islam” and “Islam” rather than make a blanket statement about something called “Islam”. Still, her remarks are much more encouraging than anything being uttered by other French politicians.

Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Transcript:

00:00 Frederic Delpeche, you’re live from the Palais Bourbon with Marion Maréchal Le Pen.

00:04 Yes, Marion Maréchal Le Pen,

00:08 with us live from the Parliament. Would you say tonight,

00:12 like many French politicians: “I am a Berliner”[“Ich bin ein Berliner”]?

00:16 Is it what your heart would cry tonight? — Well, I think it’s becoming a bit easy,

00:20 if you want, to re-light candles that are still smoking after the last attack.

00:24 Rather than multiply the over-emotional effects,

00:28 I would prefer French government to

00:32 go into a retrospective mode, because this attack in Berlin reminds us painfully of

00:36 the attack in Nice with the same modus operandi, the attack at the Bataclan with the throat- slitting,

00:40 and the conclusion is that nothing was done

00:44 concerning a break— in the question of borders, the question of migration;

00:48 that is a question that came up with the attacks, and that will continue to come up, or

00:52 concerning the propagation of radical Islam. So I think, to say just, you know,

00:56 “I am from Nice” or “I am Parisian”, “I am a Berliner”,

01:00 Facebook filters, we cry, we light up candles, we sing “Imagine”.

01:04 At some point it isn’t up to our responsibilities today.

01:08 It means that in your eyes, what seems to be an attack, at least that’s what

01:12 German government is saying, was predictable? —Well, it seems obvious,

01:16 you know, today we are facing a threat on a worldwide scale,

01:20 the threat of Islamism, that has ramifications everywhere,

01:24 that incidentally Russians are attempting to fight in Syria,

01:28 one of those ramifications in Aleppo is that there are al Qaeda rebels;

01:32 and as such the total laxity of the EU,

01:36 with its migration policy, allowed for what happened in Bataclan, infiltration

01:40 of terrorists, who have secretly infiltrated the migratory flux

01:44 in order to come and hit France. And of course

01:48 it’s a major subject, which our governments haven’t truly answered,

01:53 Except for a number of security measures, case by case,

01:57 among local representatives, to secure local Christmas markets for example. —So you question

02:01 the politics of Angela Merkel concerning welcoming of the migrants, which she has done

02:05 for the last 18 months? — Well, we’ll obviously see what is going on with this particular attack.

02:09 Because, as you just said, we don’t yet know

02:13 the identity of the terrorist; however,

02:17 I’d like to use it as a “booster shot” concerning what happened in France, where the question about

02:21 migration came up, and where there was no serious answer to it; let me remind you, even in Nice

02:25 the terrorist was a foreigner, Tunisian, an ex-convict of multiple crimes, who was never deported

02:29 from the country; and who attended an UOIE mosque [Union of Islamic Organisations] in Nice,

02:33 one of those famous mosques connected to Muslim Brotherhood, which, in France

02:37 are legal, [unintelligible] of the Republic, which are sometimes financed by

02:41 public money, without anyone being outraged.

02:45 This afternoon in Parliament, PM Bernard Cazeneuve

02:49 reminded us of the firmness and the determination of the government; did you approve

02:53 this discourse? —Well, I would prefer to see firmness and determination, for example,

02:57 in the closing of Salafist mosques! We know that there are more than a hundred of them in France,

03:01 and they weren’t all closed, to the contrary. I would prefer firmness towards

03:05 radical imams; I would prefer firmness in the refusal of

03:09 foreign funding coming from countries such as Qatar or Saudi Arabia

03:13 in our French neighborhoods, in our French mosques. Now I don’t see anything

03:17 being done. I see an impotent government that is paralysed

03:21 by the fear of stigmatizing and mixing up [moderates with radicals] to detriment of, incidentally,

03:25 the entire French nation, including Muslims, and that is petrified,

03:29 or at least completely impotent or even an accomplice in this migratory submersion,

03:33 which is a real danger today, in terms of terrorism.

03:37 In your opinion, will this subject of terrorism be part of the presidential campaign?

03:41 Well, it seems obvious, and I do hope it will be, because

03:46 there’s one thing I agree with Manuel Valse about: the fight will probably take a whole generation,

03:50 and we’ll need years to rebuild all that was undone in detail

03:54 by our governments; be it our judiciary, our police,

03:58 be it our legislative, be it our borders —concerning personnel and infrastructure.

04:02 All that will have to be tackled, I hope, starting in 2017,

04:06 to rebuild it in order to protect ourselves from these threats,

04:10 in order, also, to recreate a new diplomacy, which should form

04:14 a true alliance and coalition from Washington to Moscow

04:18 in order to finally agree on the essential: defending our interests in fighting

04:22 against all the Islamist ramifications, whether in Syria, in Libya,

04:26 or in other countries that are today facing being overthrown. —Thank you,