Éric Ciotti is deputy Les Républicains des Alpes-Maritimes.
LE FIGARO. - Christophe Castaner claims to be "the first defender of the cops in France" but he provoked the indignation of the police . How do you explain such a climate?
Eric CIOTTI. - The credibility of the current Minister of the Interior with the police has always been very weak. But today, the break between the one who claims to be the boss of the "cops" and the police is total and final. Never has an interior minister dropped his troops so pitifully. The anger is immense among the police. They are injured and they express it as they did on Wednesday evening in Nice by putting down their handcuffs. I feel in them a form of despondency and disgust.
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