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Guillaume Tabard: "Will Macron save or sacrifice Castaner?"

6/16/2020, 6:49:28 PM


COUNTERPOINT - With his disputed remarks around the question of racism, the Minister of the Interior weakened the President of the Republic as much as he weakened himself.

Hit but not sunk? Christophe Castaner wants to believe that the controversy sparked by his disputed remarks around the question of racism will not lead to his eviction from Place Beauvau. The clear and firm proclamation of "support for public power and recognition of the nation"to the police of Emmanuel Macron, this Sunday, however, aimed to correct the impact of the statements of his Minister of the Interior.

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The stakes are not low for the Head of State. If the sequence that opens is dominated by the urgency of economic reconstruction, the demonstrations sparked by the friends of the Traoré family and the passionate and "misguided" enterprise , dixit Macron, of re-reading of history, recalled the feverishness of the identity debate and the need for solid regal pillars. However, the threat of punishing the police in the event of "proven suspicions" of racism in justification of "healthy emotions"that would go beyond "legal rules", Christophe Castaner has,

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