11 Facts About Brice Hortefeux

Brice Hortefeux was Minister of the Interior, Overseas Territories and Territorial collectivities.

Brice Hortefeux was previously Minister for Labour, Labour Relations, the Family, Solidarity and Urban Affairs and Minister-Delegate for Local Government at the Ministry of the Interior and was a Member of the European Parliament from 2011 to 2024.

Brice Hortefeux is considered one of the most loyal political allies, and personal friend, of French president Nicolas Sarkozy.

Brice Hortefeux is the godfather of one of Nicolas Sarkozy's sons.

Brice Hortefeux was the promoter of a law that toughens conditions of political asylum in France.

Brice Hortefeux believes that France has a right to expel or welcome immigrants on a discretionary basis, citing as evidence the high unemployment and criminality rates of foreigners.

Brice Hortefeux served as a Member of European Parliament from 1999 to 2005 and again from 2011.

Brice Hortefeux was first elected in 1999 and later reelected in 2004 and 2009.

Ahead of the 2022 presidential elections, Brice Hortefeux publicly declared his support for Valerie Pecresse as the Republicans' candidate and joined her campaign team as special adviser on institutional reform.

Brice Hortefeux has supported and incentivised voluntary return, in his role as Immigration Minister of France, for immigrant families.

On 4 November 2010, Brice Hortefeux said that one of the two bombs in the 2010 cargo plane bomb plot was defused just 17 minutes before it was set to explode.