British nationalist activist Tommy Robinson travelled to Paris for a few days to meet with French right-wing politicians and activists, such as Éric Zemmour and Alice Cordier. On the streets of Paris, he witnessed first-hand the devastating impact of immigration on the city’s atmosphere and security and spoke publicly about it on social media—which did not go down well with the French Foreign Ministry on social media.
This is not the first time exchanges have taken place between activist Tommy Robinson and figures from the French Right. In September, the president of the Reconquête party, Éric Zemmour, travelled to London during the large anti-immigration demonstration that brought together nearly 130,000 people to support the British in their fight to defend freedom of expression and national pride.
This time, it was the British who came to return the favour to the French. After Italy, Robinson travelled to Paris to spread his message “Uniting the West,” following the “Uniting the Kingdom” mobilisation in Britain. On this occasion, he met with Zemmour for a private interview. Tommy Robinson also took a walk around Paris with Alice Cordier, president of the Némésis collective, a feminist identity organisation. They filmed themselves together in a neighbourhood of Paris known for its very degraded environment, that of the Gare du Nord, the arrival point for trains from England. “I noticed that the city of love has long since disappeared, replaced by aggressive drug-trafficking invaders,” Robinson noted bitterly in a 24-minute video devoted to his French escapade.
During the video, Cordier and Robinson are clearly seen being accosted by individuals of African origin who insult them and make threats against them.
On X, the sequence did not go unnoticed and was commented on by French Response, an official account with deliberately offbeat communication dependent on the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, responsible, as its name suggests, for responding to any criticism or attacks targeting France. In recent months, the account, paid for with public money, has distinguished itself by calling out Elon Musk and Dimitri Medvedev. In response to Robinson, the account’s community manager adopted a deliberately casual—not to say disparaging—tone: “A shame Paris didn’t win you over this time! If you decide to give it another shot, let us know. We’d be happy to help you plan your next visit so you catch all the best parts.”
It is clear that the ministry has absolutely no desire to accompany Robinson on his next visit to the French capital. The unpleasant remark tends to downplay the verbal abuse suffered by Cordier and Robinson, which Cordier was quick to point out in her reply on X: “Every week, YouTubers from all over the world come to Paris to film the insecurity. Each time, they leave with images that are terrible for France: open drug dealing, illegal immigrants, attacks on women, pickpockets, filth, weapons. Well, that makes the foreign affairs ministry laugh, which allows itself to be ironic about it.”
Robinson, for his part, recalled some sad statistics, namely that 77% of solved rapes committed on the streets of Paris are committed by foreigners—a painful and indisputable fact about the perverse effects of immigration, of which women, as Cordier points out, are the first victims.
