If Poland wants to avoid the fate of France, “the time to stop immigration is now.”
This is the warning from French national Olivier Bault, a former writer for Remix News and the current communications director for Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture in Poland, during an appearance on Polish television program “Cogito… u Raczyńskiej” on TVP Info.
Bault said his hometown of Vienne serves as a cautionary tale for Poland and the perils of unchecked mass immigration.
🇫🇷🇵🇱If Poland wants to avoid the fate of France, "the time to stop immigration is now."
This is the warning from French national Olivier Bault, a former writer for @RMXnews, who has lived in Poland for 33 years.
Bault tells Polish media that his hometown of Vienne in France… pic.twitter.com/2LVARkIvQh
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) June 16, 2026“I have been in Poland for almost 33 years, so I would say that after a few decades, my hometown, where I grew up, looks completely different. While there was an Arabic or Turkish quarter when I was a teenager in my hometown of Vienne, which has a population of 30,000, now the whole city is such that White French people are in the minority. Culturally, you can also see the difference,” he said.
He said the demographics have relentlessly changed over the decades, even under conservative leaders.
“If we have hundreds of thousands of immigrants every year, and in the case of France, that number is growing fast, even during the time of President Sarkozy, i.e., the first decade of our century, we had a net immigration rate of under 200,000 a year. Now it’s closer to 400,000. With each subsequent presidency, it grows,” said Bault.
This perception is not just Bault’s either, but widely shared by the French public. According to polling, 60 percent of voters believe France is witnessing “a replacement of the French population by non-European populations.”
He said that more immigration begets more immigration in a process that is ever accelerating.
For France, he said that there are a number of factors that drive this process, with migrants choosing countries where they have family and friends. Then, there is family reunification, “which is also written into European law” and backed by the European Court of Human Rights, leaving countries with few options.
“Nation-states are no longer even fully in control of this process,” he stated.
The third issue is that once migrants from Africa and the Middle East arrive, they tend to have more children.
The end result is that “we are at a stage in France where about 30 percent of the population of France has an immigrant background, either in the first or second generation, and where this is an irreversible process.”
Bault says the same process is taking place in Poland: “I would say that in the case of Poland, where I see that Poland is also moving in this direction—what France, Germany, and Great Britain once were—the time to stop it is now. Later, it will be too late.”
Poland still has the opportunity to look to the West and see the large-scale integration failures at nearly every level, including schools, the workforce, and the culture.
“There is no integration if several hundred thousand new immigrants arrive every year. There is no such possibility. If 10 percent of the population of France is already Muslim, plus people from different countries, they live in their neighborhoods among themselves, and these are [ghettos].”
Bault then veers into discussing Islamism, which has plagued France in particular. He notes that there neighborhoods across France where police fear to go and where Muslims live by their own rules. Notably, many within this group follow the concept of “Ummah.”
“Every practicing Muslim belongs to the Ummah, to the Muslim community, before they belong to a given nation. So there is also the problem of this belonging, which becomes a problem when a large part of society belongs to this Ummah,” he said.
Again, research has generally confirmed Bault’s fears. A detailed study by the prestigious polling service Ifop shows that hardline views are growing amongst Muslims in France, including an emphasis on the laws of Islam being placed over those of the state, particularly among young Muslims.
Among Muslims in general, 44 percent polled say they “respect the rules of Islam” as being more important “than respect for French laws.” For those aged 15-24, 57 percent believe the rules of Islam are more important than “respect for French laws.”
To compound the problem, far-left organizations are actively working with these Muslims groups, even when the Muslim groups are actively opposed to many of the ideologies.
“It is also worth mentioning that the Muslim Brotherhood, an international organization that is considered terrorist in many states, including Arab states, operates quite legally in most European countries and in Brussels, supports and cooperates with the far left. Even though this European far left is LGBT and trans and so on, their clear strategy is to encourage us Europeans to lose our values, our civilization, to make a place for the Islamization of our continent,” stated Bault.
He concludes: “If we want to talk about integration, we must first regain control over immigration. We must limit, radically, immigration to Europe.”
