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British authorities have barred a far-right French writer from visiting the UK, his publisher told AFP on Friday.<\/p>\n
Renaud Camus was set to give a speech at a hard-right political party event in Britain next week, but officials turned down his request for a travel permit, his English-language publisher Vauban Books said.<\/p>\n
The publisher said the UK’s interior ministry told Camus his presence in the UK was not considered “conducive to the public good”, though the ministry has not commented.<\/p>\n
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Camus is known for his 2011 book “The Great Replacement” and its conspiratorial argument that white Europeans are being deliberately supplanted by non-white immigrants.<\/p>\n
The idea has inspired extreme-right figures like the Brenton Tarrant, who killed 51 Muslim worshippers in attacks on two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch in 2019.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, Camus said on X that his application for an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) had been rejected.<\/p>\n
“I have just been notified that I am banned from entering the United Kingdom, where I was due to give a speech next week,” he posted.<\/p>\n
His publisher told AFP on Friday that “Camus has indeed been barred from entering the UK, where he was scheduled to address an event by the Homeland Party”.<\/p>\n
It shared what it said was a message from an interior ministry department rejecting Camus’s ETA application, which said his “presence in the UK is not considered to be conducive to the public good”.<\/p>\n
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The message said that Camus must now apply for a visa if he wishes to travel to the UK, and that the rejection of his ETA did not necessarily mean a visa would be turned down.<\/p>\n
The publisher said the decision on the travel permit would also prevent Camus from accepting an invitation to speak at the Oxford Union debating society later this spring.<\/p>\n
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