"I want to tell the police that, as an elected official, I know their difficulties." From the start, Gérald Darmanin tried, this Tuesday, to close the page of autoflagellation inside. The demands expressed by his predecessor, Christophe Castaner, had caused trouble, while the police and the gendarmerie were accused of illegitimate violence and almost systemic racism, at the turn of the Floyd and Adama Traoré cases.
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The new occupier of Beauvau wanted to assure the men and women placed under his authority of his "total support and deep recognition of the government." "Let them never doubt, at any time, that I will always be the first of them," he added proudly.
At his post now, it is events that command. The minister has already announced that he will receive the police unions by Thursday. No sooner had he delivered his speech than he rushed to the Mureaux police station, before going on to a
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