His visit was planned "for a long time ". This does not preclude the opportunity to pass on a few political messages on the eve of a weekend marked by calls to demonstrate against "police violence" and racism. Marine Le Pen went this Friday morning to the police station of Villeneuve-la-Garenne (Hauts-de-Seine) to exchange with the police and present to them the proposals of his plan of "republican confidence for the police" , published Wednesday afternoon.
The opportunity for the president of the RN to call once again for the resignation of the Minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner. " I asked for it ten times!" Therefore I can ask for it an eleventh time. It is obvious that it is out of place, ”she said. One way to accentuate the pressure on the executive, which must already face the anger of the police since the declarations of the tenant of Beauvau, Monday June 8. The Minister had indicated in particular that any official subject to "proven suspicions of racism" would be punished. Before announcing the removal of the technique of the " throttling key " during arrests.
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These statements followed a pressing request from Emmanuel Macron, who summoned him to "speed up" on an evolution in methods of maintaining order, in particular following the death of Cédric Chouviat, a delivery man killed during of a traffic check in January in Paris. In response, police demonstrated this Friday morning in Paris, at the call of the unions Alliance, Synergie, SICP and UNSA. " I call on my colleagues to stop questioning, to stop intervening," urged the day before Yves Lefebvre, boss of the union SGP Police-FO unit.
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"Presumption of guilt"
" We put in place a presumption of guilt ", with regard to the police, as for her denounced Marine Le Pen at the exit of the police station of the villenogarennoise city. Flanked by the MEP and number two of the party, Jordan Bardella, the president of the National Gathering strolled for an hour within the walls of the building, located in the middle of a suburban residence.
She took the opportunity to give her “ support ” to the police - who voted 54% in her favor in 2017; to castigate their working conditions - between " millions of unpaid overtime hours, staggered hours, families threatened, insults all the time "; and to denounce the " recurrent abandonment " of which they are said to be the object. They had so far " at least the support of their hierarchy, " she then taunted. And to assert: " If the intention of the Ministry of the Interior was to worsen the situation in our country, I think that it takes the right way ".
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It was here, in the nearby town of Saint-Denis, that incidents broke out at the end of April after the accident of a biker whose leg was fractured in a collision with a police car in circumstances troubles. This was followed by a few evenings of tension and confrontation between young people and the police in several cities in the suburbs of Paris.
Marine Le Pen finally denied the existence of police violence. " There are personal failures of course, but we cannot say that there is a structural problem of violence in the police of our country, " she insisted. She also invited Emmanuel Macron to " reaffirm his support for the police " Sunday during his televised address. Apart from the closed session of the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, during which he declared that " we must not give in either to amalgam reducers or to guilty protection (of the police) ", the Head of State has not yet taken public speaking on the subject of police violence.
To work to alleviate the suffering of the police, Marine Le Pen is proposing, for the moment, to grant law enforcement officials a share of social housing in each municipality, to create a law enforcement school for the police or still to generalize the wearing of pedestrian cameras by police officers.