A man “identified as having gone to Syria to fight in the ranks of the Islamic State” has been removed from the list of RSA recipients by the General Council of the Alpes-Maritimes.
A simple administrative decision as one might think?
Not at all, a political case for the departmental President Eric Ciotti who took the opportunity to show his most severe expression.
But to whom? if not to himself, since this management is his responsibility?
“People who have left the country with the intention of waging war alongside a terrorist group such as the Islamic State are not meant to continue benefiting from national solidarity through the Active Solidarity Income” (RSA). To qualify for RSA, it is necessary to meet a stability and residency effectivity criterion, he emphasized.
Very well, but who says otherwise?
He also requested the State to inform him of the identities of French nationals residing in the department who have gone to Syria, “in order to remove these individuals from all benefits granted by the General Council.”
Very well, but there’s no need to play sheriff: It’s enough to apply the rule without making it a political case each time.
Finally, one might nonetheless have doubts about the supposed strategy of the Caliphate wanting to finance itself with the RSA…
