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How Gérald Darmanin pulled Beauvau

2020-07-08T22:34:08.573Z


STORY - The former lieutenant of Nicolas Sarkozy, who does not hide his ambitions, lobbied hard to get his promotion.


Transfer of power, visit to a Mureaux police station and then to a Lot-et-Garonne gendarmerie brigade, first exchange with the police unions expected “no later than Thursday” … Gérald Darmanin dreamed of the costume of first cop of France. He therefore did not hang around for the first time, the day after his appointment at Place Beauvau. For his first speech as Minister of the Interior, the Sarkozyst assured the police of his "total support" while for a month, the police have not given up after Christophe Castaner announced "zero tolerance" against racism.

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At 37, the youngest Minister of the Interior of the Fifth Republic therefore moved to a weakened house, and would have to show himself capable of restoring a bond of trust with the police. "Let them never doubt that I will always be the first among them," insisted the former Minister of the Budget during the handover.

The appointment Place Beauvau of this close friend of Xavier Bertrand had

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Source: lefigaro

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