The High Court victory of Epping Forest District Council has made news in France. The decision to temporarily block migrants from being housed in The Bell Hotel was covered by newspapers such as Le Monde and Le Figaro .
The latter provided some context to the growing tension in England, noting that the migrants in Epping are just a few of the estimated 32,000 migrants housed in hotels ‘at the expense of the British taxpayer.’
In the years since most journalists have shied away from reporting on the ongoing practice of housing migrants in hotels
Earlier this month the cover story of a weekly current affairs magazine in France, JDD News , was devoted to the growing disquiet of Europe’s silent majority at mass immigration. The article was inspired by the protests in Epping but also n