Marine Le Pen, president of the National Gathering, questioned Sunday the role of the Paris police prefect, Didier Lallement, in "the aggravation of tensions" of the last weeks, especially in matters of police violence.
"I question the prefect of police in Paris, the choices that were made by him in matters of maintaining order are choices that obviously led to the aggravation of tensions and violence", he said. she declared on the set of the France 3 program "Sunday in politics". A certain number of political leaders, on the left as on the right, criticize the policy of the melee and very offensive of the new prefect of police.
Marine Le Pen thus described as "insane technique" the "mousetrap" set up Place d'Italie during a demonstration of yellow vests in December. She was also surprised by the return of the "voltigeurs", who had not been seen "for 34 years", and to whom one would have given "batons". It refers here to the motorized police squadrons (the BRAV-m for Brigade of repression of the motorized violent action), deployed in mass by Didier Lallement from March 2019.
The president of @RNational_off @MLP_officiel requests the resignation of the Paris police prefect Didier Lallement. #ViolencesPolicieres #YellowVests #reformedesretraites
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In mid-November, Didier Lallement had also been criticized for his response to an activist in a yellow vest in Place d'Italie. "We are not in the same camp, madam," he said, the day after the yellow vests' anniversary day, marked by numerous clashes.
Viral videos in recent weeks
Staggering against a demonstrator in Toulouse, shooting from LBD at close range in Paris, then this weekend punches struck at a young man handcuffed and immobilized on the ground ... Viral videos of police violence in full demonstration were also multiplied in recent weeks in France. With in the key a certain number of investigations entrusted to the IGPN, even if the legal machine turns for the time idling on this problematic.
This Sunday, the head of the RN also attributed the "rising tensions" to the communication of the executive on these scenes of potential blunders. Like Emmanuel Macron, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner however recalled this week the necessary "exemplarity" of the police. An inflection that has not yet materialized on the ground.
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