Coronavirus: Didier Lallement's new slip up against politicians

The opposition as the doctors did not fail to react, Friday, to the remarks of the prefect of police. And this despite his quick mea culpa. "Those who are sick are not those who have not respected confinement," said Patrick Pelloux on BFMTV. To say the opposite is "totally false," said the president of the Association of Emergency Physicians of France while Frédéric Adnet, the medical director of the Samu de Seine-Saint-Denis, castigated words "scandalous". "You should tell him that there are resuscitation caregivers!" On behalf of the carers, on behalf of all the patients, this prefect must resign, ” added the latter.

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An indignation shared by the deputy LR Éric Ciotti who denounced the words "deeply inhuman" which are "revolting and shocking". "I have a thought for the families of the victims for whom we add the insult to the pain," he explains to Le Figaro . And to turn to the Minister of the Interior: "If Castaner does not react, that means that he endorses!" "Not all people in intensive care have asked to be resuscitated, there are people who died despite the barrier gestures," says MP Julien Aubert.

How many more provocations before Christophe Castaner finally decides to fire him?

Didier Lallement's intervention was described as "stupid" by the president of RN, Marine Le Pen. "In addition to a coldness and a wickedness which give nausea," she insisted on Twitter. While the deputy RN Bruno Bilde wondered: "How many more provocations before Christophe Castaner finally decides to fire him?"

"Immediate resignation "

On the left, Prefect Lallement was also widely criticized. The more so as between the prefect of police of Paris and these parties, the litigation is not new. Many elected officials had already criticized his management of law enforcement during the demonstrations of "yellow vests" or against the pension reform. Jean-Luc Mélenchon presented it Friday as the "grimacing face of the regime". “The state of health emergency must not have this insulting face. People must be respected! ” , he said on social media.

He is lucky that we are in a pandemic and that his resignation is hardly acceptable because it would disrupt services

"This is not the first time that the prefect Lallement is wrong role," pointed quickly Olivier Faure, denouncing comments "absolutely scandalous" . For the first secretary of the PS, the role of the police prefect "is to be a reassuring figure in the Republic, making it possible to enforce very strict instructions. But certainly not to go and award good points to anyone ”. "There is today a dead coronavirus policeman in Seine-et-Marne ... It is to all those who are forced to go to work every day and to their families that we must think. Making them feel guilty is crazy, " he said.

According to him, "this prefect has exceeded all possible tolerance thresholds and he is fortunate that we are in a pandemic and that his resignation is hardly acceptable because it would disrupt services" . But for Olivier Faure, "it will be necessary that at the end of the crisis, the government draws all the conclusions and considers that obviously, this prefect is not in his place in this role" .

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For the Communist group in the Senate, no need to wait any longer. He asked for the "immediate resignation " of the Paris police chief who is "ignominy made man". "His inhumanity definitely has no limits," denounces the group. Same opinion for the movement of Benoît Hamon, Génération.s which "called on the government to dismiss the prefect Lallement from his duties". "By accusing by reasoning as haphazard as indignant patients currently hospitalized in intensive care to be responsible for their fate, he commits too much fault. This final slippage cannot be without consequence, ” insisted the movement.