Actually the relevant imitation of The Camp of the Saints by real life is the welcoming with open arms by the EU of migrants from Africa and the Middle East. In interviews Raspail made it clear that his absurd conceit of a flotilla from the Ganges delta was needed because even in 1973, forthright criticism of immigration from the Muslim world was too politically dangerous in France, and a book with a realistic flotilla across the Mediterranean couldn't have found a publisher.
