London:
British authorities have stopped a far-flung French writer from going to the UK, his publisher told AFP on Friday.
The Renod Camus was designed to deliver a speech at a hard-right political party event in Britain next week, but the authorities turned down their request for a travel permit, said Vauban Books, publisher of their English language.
The publisher said that the UK’s internal ministry stated that Camus was not considered their presence in the UK as “favorable to the good of the public”, although the ministry has not commented.
Camus is known for his 2011 book “The Great Replacement” and its conspiracy arguments that white Europeans are being deliberately suppressed by non-white immigrants.
The idea inspired the extreme figures such as Brenton Tarant, who killed 51 Muslim worshipers in an attacks on two mosques in New Zealand City Christchurch in 2019.
On Thursday, Camus said on X that their application for an electronic travel authority (ETA) was rejected.
He said, “I have just been informed that I have been banned from entering the United Kingdom, where I was about to give a speech next week,” he posted.
His publisher told AFP on Friday that “Camus was actually stopped from entering the UK, where he was determined by the Homeland Party to address a program”.
It shared what it was said, a message from an internal ministry rejected the ETA application of the Camus, stating that “their presence in Britain is not considered favorable to the public”.
The message states that the Camus will now have to apply for a visa if he wants to travel to the UK, and that his ETA rejection did not mean that the visa would be rejected.
The publisher said that the decision on travel permits would also prevent Camus from accepting the invitation to speak later in the Oxford Union Debating Society.
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