(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #253 (Oct) - Fortress
Europe: Hunting migrants in Hungary (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
The hunt for migrants implemented by the Hungarian government is a boon to the ruling
party, Fidesz. Competition from its own extreme right, the ruling party draws a greater
legitimacy and continues its construction of a fascist state. The EU makes a fool by
giving moral lessons. ---- The Hungarian government had prepared the ground. In late
April, it launched a "consultation" on the national theme of immigration, with questions
like: "According to some, immigration, which is poorly managed by Brussels and the
development of terrorism are linked. Do you agree? "The challenge was legitimizing in
advance of an extreme firmness government position:" Would you support tougher measures
against the Hungarian government permissive policy in Brussels? "
And indeed, in late spring, the government announced the planned construction of a 175 km
wall on the border with Serbia, which passed by a majority of migrants entering Hungary,
completed August 29. The European Commission was quick to shrug: "We have shot recently
walls in Europe, we should not put us to build new ones", said a spokeswoman for June 18
C'mon.
No man's land
Then came the legal aspect. September 4 was voted a law reclassifying the crime of illegal
immigration, until then considered a crime. The treatment of asylum applications process
is accelerated: the authorities were invited mid-September to deal with asylum
applications of migrants from Serbia in a few hours, that is to say to refuse. To manage
these applications and to facilitate the delivery in Serbia, the law provided for
establishing "transit zones" kind of no man's land beyond the legally Hungarian territory,
like the waiting areas of airports. The law of September 4, as highlighted by the good
European souls, violates the Geneva Convention - but not the Schengen agreements.
A large military presence makes it all possible, with a redeployment of armed forces at
the border and a law to take effect October 1, allowing the government to declare a "state
of crisis" giving virtually all the rights to police and soldiers stationed at the border.
Violation of international law, a state of emergency, all voted in Parliament: bourgeois
right is a malleable tool in the hands of a government protofasciste (See Hungary
Construction of a fascist state).
Highlighting the "crisis" in the spring migration was a boon for Fidesz, then entangled in
a complicated corruption scandal, the "Quaestorgate" which obviously nobody today speaks
well. More structural level, violence against migrants Orban is a way to give legitimacy
facing the rise of rival right Jobbik. To reassure fascist troops, the government sends
its media holder gun. Thus Zsolt Mayer, columnist in the pro-government daily Magyar
Hirlap wrote on August 15 that "Europe must be liberated from this horror. If necessary by
force "and that" it is not only their culture is different, but their instinct and their
genetic heritage ". For now, the militias that prowl on the Serbian border and near the
stations of Budapest are held on a leash by their master. Frustrated and ungrateful, the
militia even complain of being prevented by the police "do the job", as stated by a leader
of HVIM during a demonstration in Budapest in mid-July.
Gyula (friend of AL)
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