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11 October 2007
PARIS (AFP) - A new Paris museum celebrating the role of immigration in French history opened to the public Wednesday amid a fierce row over plans by President Nicolas Sarkozy's government to introduce DNA tests for would-be immigrants.
Located on the eastern edge of Paris, the National Museum on the History of Immigration was championed by former president Jacques Chirac but historians involved have been at loggerheads with the new government over the whole issue.
Although Chirac was to visit the site Thursday and Culture Minister Christine Albanel to make an appearance on Wednesday, there are no plans for a formal ribbon-cutting, opening ceremony -- seen by some as a snub to the new venture.
"This is France's Ellis Island. It would have been natural for the president to honour it with his presence," said historian Patrick Weil, referring to the former immigration gateway to the United States, now home to a museum.
Weil and eight other historians resigned this year from the museum's governing body in protest at Sarkozy's creation of a ministry of immigration and national identity, seen as a bid to court the anti-immigrant vote.
They have also joined the chorus of protest, from left-wing critics, religious leaders and some members of the ruling right, against a bill currently going through parliament that would allow DNA testing for immigrants wishing to join relatives in France.
The opening came a day after a left-wing member of Sarkozy's government, Urban Affairs Minister Fadela Amara, threatened to resign in protest over the toughening of French immigration policy.
"Speaking as an immigrant's daughter, I've had enough of seeing immigration exploited all the time ... I think it's disgusting," said Amara, who is of Algerian origin.
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