Overview
- On CNews, Arno Klarsfeld said France should organize “large roundups” to remove people under OQTF, invoking Donald Trump’s ICE approach and acknowledging “injustices” as serving the state.
- The comments were made during a segment about a violent case in Nice involving a suspect under an OQTF, which fueled immediate political condemnation.
- Lawmakers including LFI deputies and Socialist Party leader Olivier Faure said they referred the remarks to Arcom and the Paris prosecutor, citing potential violations under the July 24, 1881 press law.
- As of the latest reports, Arcom and the Paris prosecutor had not publicly replied to media inquiries about the referrals.
- Klarsfeld later argued on X and in press comments that he was describing U.S. policy rather than calling for its application in France, and he contested the historical connotations of the word “rafle.”