Faced with anger, he calls the government to its responsibilities. Jean-Luc Mélenchon scratched this Sunday President Macron and Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, whom he criticized for the lack of a firm position in the face of multiple accusations of racism in the police.
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, " said the leader of Insubmissive in an interview with BFMTV.
"It would be better for him to speak on this than to sell cars," he said. A reference to Emmanuel Macron's trip a few days ago to a Renault site to announce the government's plan to save jobs in the automotive sector.
Castaner's responsibility "is total"
"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. "But by a form of runaway and overbidding, a significant fraction of the police [...] slipped towards these attitudes" of violence on black or Arab populations, he added.
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 Traore, "his responsibility is total, he is the head of the pyramid" whose attitude can "encourage or repress these behaviors".
Saturday, Jean-Luc Mélenchon had already strongly criticized the police unions, whose behavior was "unworthy", according to him. "The root of all this is political power which is in the hands of the police unions who do what they want," he said.
"And why are they doing it?" : because in the Yellow Vests period, they were the ones who held at arm's length the survival of the regime. And since then, Mr. Castaner has said yes to everything they say and do, and is incapable of having authority, ”he said.
Towards a return to the countryside in 2022?
Also questioned about a possible candidacy in 2022, the former candidate of 2012 and 2017 seems to rule out no leads for the moment. "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 ”.
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"Now I tell myself that I feel a new utility because of the experience I have accumulated and that events do not scare me," added the president of the group of France Insoumise to the National Assembly.
"If you knew, presidential candidates are a cross to wear, do not think it is a walk in the park," he explained. It's exhausting, you take shots from all sides, and next time it's likely to be a sewer. When we see how the previous one happened, I dread the rest. "
For 2022, I am not telling stories: I know very well that I have a decision to make. I will take it when the time comes. #BFMpolitics
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon (@JLMelenchon) June 7, 2020He also does not rule out supporting his fellow MP François Ruffin, who recently said that he could run if the "flag" of the social and environmental left was "on the ground". "I have the greatest esteem for him, in particular as a documentary author," he added about the man who proclaims himself "deputy reporter" and realized "Merci Patron" and "J ' want some sun! "