Delinquency, riots, serial attacks: Emmanuel Macron caught up with insecurity

Communication on the management of the health crisis this week, presentation of the economic recovery plan in the coming days, the executive is sparing its efforts to display its voluntarism. On all fronts… or almost. Because another subject is on the way to disrupt the plans of Emmanuel Macron and Jean Castex, that of insecurity which has returned to the forefront of the news at the option of particularly tragic various facts.

“It would be wrong to relegate this issue to second place. Our society is currently living through an era of incredible violence, let's not give the feeling of being naive in the face of this issue. Otherwise, everything will blow up. And we will be accused of being accountable, ”worries a heavyweight in the majority.

Gérald Darmanin mocked for his many trips

At the beginning of August, it was a 44-year-old father who was savagely assaulted in a laundry in Seine-Saint-Denis when he had just asked a customer to wear the mask. A few weeks earlier, on July 10, a bus driver died in Bayonne, beaten up by two individuals well known to the police. On Tuesday evening again, it was a RATP driver who had his hair pulled from behind and fell to the ground, before receiving a kick.

And what about the attacks on mayors which have multiplied this summer! Not to mention the scenes of violence that punctuated the end of PSG's last two games and particularly shocked the public. “To say that a month ago, everyone said that Darmanin was doing too much when he spoke of the enslavement of society…” returns an LREM deputy.

For the opposition, the person in charge is still found everything: Emmanuel Macron, accused of "laxity" and "impotence" by his opponents. Even having "a problem with the authority", regularly criticizes the boss of RN Marine Le Pen. "Security will remain the immense bankruptcy of the five-year term of Emmanuel Macron," Xavier Bertrand charged in Le Figaro on Thursday. In the viewfinder also, the new Minister of the Interior, mocked for the multiplication of his movements, his chin blows and his sometimes martial statements which are not unlike those of a certain Nicolas Sarkozy.

But also the Keeper of the Seals Éric Dupond-Moretti, eagerly awaited on the issue of the execution of sentences and judicial follow-up. Within the executive, many think that it is on this last point that the shoe pinches: “The republican order, that goes beyond the question of the means given to the police force. It is also a question of justice. If the sentences are not carried out, we weaken the place of authority in the country, ”says spokesman Gabriel Attal.

Asked about France Inter on Wednesday morning, Jean Castex admitted that the public service of justice was functioning "insufficiently", after the months of July and August "unsatisfactory" in terms of security. Then in the wake, in the Council of Ministers, the Head of State set foot in the dish. First by announcing that the next government seminar, scheduled for September 9, will focus on issues of “republican order, security and justice”. "The republican order, it is not only a subject of the Minister of the Interior, it is a continuity of the school to the justice", he also specified, way of putting the whole of his government under pressure.

"Very concrete measures" soon to be unveiled

“I've been in this ministry for six weeks. I am at the side of the police and the gendarmes every day, because my office is the field and my mission is the security of everyday life ", answers the Parisian Minister of the Interior in the face of criticism that he finds" totally unfair to with regard to the President ”:“ The first part of the five-year term was very largely devoted to the fight against terrorism. I touch wood, but we have not had any major attacks since he was elected. It is thanks, in part, to the installation of 1,900 additional people in internal intelligence, ”he recalls.

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An advisor from Beauvau to also return to the incidents in Paris that occurred on the sidelines of the defeat of PSG on Sunday evening: “We still proceeded to 150 arrests, it is a completely historic figure for such an event. More than 400 reports were also drawn up for non-wearing of the mask. This means that the police did their job, they did not back down. Even if four vandalized stores and a dozen burnt cars, it is still too many. "On the occasion of the next government seminar, Darmanin should unveil its roadmap for the coming months, with" very concrete "measures, we promise. To be continued.