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"Let the president speak" on the police rather than "to sell cars," says Mélenchon

2020-06-07T19:47:19.342Z


Asked about BFMTV, the head of the rebels pointed to the behavior of Emmanuel Macron and explained that he will have a "decision to make" regarding the presidential elections of 2022.


" It would be better for the president to speak " on alleged racism in the police rather than " to sell cars " by going to Renault, attacked the leader of the rebels Jean-Luc Mélenchon Sunday. Emmanuel Macron " should say: 'We are a Métis nation, very mixed, our strength is to be able to find an exit where we are all united regardless of our skin color and our religion', " he said. asserted.

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" It would be better for him to speak on this than to sell cars, " said Jean-Luc Mélenchon in reference to Emmanuel Macron's trip a few days ago to a Renault site to announce the plan. government to save jobs in the automotive industry. " This is not to say that we have a police or a racist state, I would not say that, " said the boss of LFI deputies on BFMTV. " But by a form of runaway and overbidding, a significant fraction of the police (...) has slipped towards these attitudes " of violence on black or Arab populations, he added.

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According to him, " there is a training problem " in the police and it is " first the hierarchy which must be questioned, first the Minister " of the Interior Christophe Castaner. In cases of police violence, referring in particular to the death of Adama Traoré, " his responsibility is total, he is the head of the pyramid " whose attitude can " encourage or repress these behaviors ".

Presidential 2022

The leader of La France insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon confided Sunday to " feel a new utility " with the crisis of the coronavirus, affirming about past and future presidential elections "to be put on a train which he can no longer manage to get down . " Asked on BFMTV about a possible candidacy in 2022 after those of 2012 and 2017, he replied: " I will have a decision to make. I am like you, I had not foreseen the Covid-19 and the catastrophe (economic and social) to come, I felt rather in the role of a man who prepares the continuation ”. Indeed, " I took very rough blows, my image was damaged by the violence that I suffered ", he continued with reference to his reaction of anger very mediatized to the search of the headquarters of LFI in October 2018.

" Now I tell myself that I feel a new usefulness because of the experience that I have accumulated and that events do not scare me ," added the president of the group of rebellious deputies. " I know I have a decision to make, it costs me enough, I must be one of the rare characters in this country who has boarded a train from which he can no longer get off, " he said. " Sometimes yes, there are days when I would prefer to be quiet ", especially to indulge in the " temptation of writing ", said Jean-Luc Mélenchon. " If you knew, presidential candidates are a cross to wear, do not think it is a walk in the park, " he said. " It's exhausting, you're taking shots from all sides, and next time it's likely to be a drain." When we see how the previous one happened, I dread the rest ».

Source: lefigaro

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