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Thaïs d'Escufon

Thaïs d'Escufon

French activist

Oct 21, 2026

SunilHOST
42:56
For people who are unaware of who you are, it'd be good to just get a general background of how you got involved in everything that you're doing currently.
43:06
Yes, with pleasure.
43:08
I started activism at 18.
43:10
I was in university and I had a Catholic education, like I have eight brothers and sisters.
43:19
I always was, sorry, a right-wing basically.
43:23
But I really saw the reality of it when I went to university and Sometimes I was the only French girl in the underground, in the subway, going to my classes, you know.
43:37
And the university itself, which is called Le Mirail, people can look up on the internet, it is really...

12 MINS LATER

SunilHOST
55:36
What is going on in France now then? Do you have a conscious of time? Do you have hope for France in France's future?
5:52
It's literally just trying to put band-aids on a struggling economy.
5:57
I think maybe both, but I believe more in a very, you know, they're very stupid and selfish, like the elites, like because it does not touch them directly.
6:10
They don't care about the French people because like they still pay the taxes like the French.
6:17
the French people still are working, and they are not the ones rioting, actually, the ones that really suffer from all this policy, these insane taxes, because in France, when you are an entrepreneur, for instance, you have to pay 50% of taxes from what you earn.
6:34
This is absolutely crazy.
6:35
We live almost in a communist state.
6:39
And so, yeah, the very wealthy people, they just leave.

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17:34
Can you just tell us your story?
2:05
It was your apartment?
2:06
Yes, um, it, it was, uh, it was my apartment.
2:09
I was living there with a roommate, a friend of mine, and, um, I was, uh, heading back from the gym, um, and, uh, to my home, and I was being followed, but I didn't notice it at the time because I was, uh, with headph- uh, headphones, um, and listening to music.
2:30
And, um, I, um, I waited a, a little bit in front of the door, and it was a first floor apartment, so when you, uh, open the door, you're already in a, in the living room.
2:43
Uh, and it's an important detail because, um, when I, uh, finished the call, uh, I was having, I opened the door, and when I wanted to close it, I saw a shadow, um, a blurred shadow behi- behind the door.
2:57
And, um, because it w- it was like an ancient sharp kind of door, uh, with just, uh, you know, this, uh, blurred, um, glass.
3:08
And I thought, "Oh, my roommate is early," but, you know, I let the door open by itself.

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40:43
What was that point of view?
67:52
What's going on in France? Tell us over here in America what you're worried about, 'cause we're worried about it too.
67:59
Actually, France have a terrible policy about immigration.
68:04
It has been the case for f- 50 years, maybe more.
68:08
And now we have issues with, uh, the m- the number of immigrants we welcomed, and now we have the third and second generation of immigrants that are actually causing even, even more chaos and trouble than the generations before.
68:23
Like, it's, it's like they hate us more each time than the generation before.
68:29
Um, to give you an idea, France right now is welcoming legally, uh, uh, roughly 500,000 legal immigrants per year, which represents the fifth biggest city in France, which is Nice.
68:45
So you have the equivalent of the fifth biggest city in your country coming each year, and most, the majority of them do not leave after.

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79:59
They do that every time.

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