Emmanuel Macron deplored Friday August 28 " a trivialization of violence " which has, according to him, " hardened " " on leaving confinement " and which requires " a rapid Republican response ", during a meeting in Paris with the Presidential Press Association. " Something is happening in our society which is not new, but which undoubtedly accelerated on leaving confinement, which hardened: a form of trivialization of violence ", argued the head of the State, by assuring that the government would be " intractable ".
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He called for “ putting back a real educational policy, that is to say a prevention policy; but also a republican response - respecting individual rights - but which is rapid and intelligible both for the victim and for ”the alleged perpetrator. The President of the Republic has indicated that he will speak on the subject next week on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Republic.
Security and justice issues are also among the " priorities " of the government seminar back to school on September 9. For the occasion, Emmanuel Macron said he had asked the Ministers of the Interior and of Justice "for some additional elements to the strategy, both to speed it up and respond more effectively ".
The lack of police officers singled out
" The violence we are talking about has several forms: there is the one we have known since 2016 on the occasion of public demonstrations which is the fact of rather organized groups, extremists, which have an opportunist approach, which are grafted into demonstrations for acts of violence; then there is drug-related violence - the Covid has destabilized many networks - and then there is daily violence , ”listed the Head of State.
The right has been raising the niche for several days on insecurity, which according to it has become the “ black hole ” of Emmanuel Macron's five-year term, thus placing the cursor on a sovereign subject that it wants to put at the heart of the presidential election of 2022, then that the stories of various facts have punctuated all summer. " Those who attract our attention are those who have reduced the resources of the police and the gendarmerie ... ", joked Emmanuel Macron, implicitly targeting Nicolas Sarkozy and Les Républicains, recalling the increase in the resources allocated to the forces of the order and the hiring of 10,000 police and gendarmes since the start of his five-year term.
No "magic bullet"
In front of the presidential press, Emmanuel again underlined " the difficulty of responding as quickly as possible to all forms of violence ", noting that it was a " symptom or a malaise of our society, which is an education problem, an integration problem, an economic model problem ”. According to the president, it is also " probably an anthropological change ". “ The violence has become commonplace. First on social networks, then it is transcribed very quickly on the real and physical level ", he considered, calling for" to find the salt of republican patriotism ".
Faced with violence widely repeated on social networks, the executive has made several gestures, such as granting specific compensation for police officers working at night. " Yes, we are putting the means there ", insisted Emmanuel Macron, calling for "to put resources back on our justice, by hiring wherever necessary more judges and clerks ". “ When a delinquent is called before the judge six or eight months (after the charges against him), and he serves his sentence twelve or eighteen months later, it has no virtue and, for the victim, it is unbearable ”, he again argued, warning however against any“ magic solution ”. Asked about the use of the term " savage " by his Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, which had irritated part of the majority, Emmanuel Macron indicated that he would speak more of " a trivialization of violence " than “ Nothing is legitimate ”.
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