He does not take the word for himself. While the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin denounces the “savage” of society, Emmanuel Macron distances himself from the expression popularized by the National Rally of Marine Le Pen. The President of the Republic prefers to speak of " trivialization of violence ". A violence that appeared throughout the chain of various facts that punctuated the summer. Violence which has, according to the Head of State " hardened on leaving confinement " and which requires " a rapid Republican response ".
During a meeting in Paris with the Presidential Press Association, Emmanuel Macron assured that the government would be “ intractable ”. However, it will be necessary to wait until next week, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Republic, for the President of the Republic to speak more at length on the subject. Before that, questions of security and justice will be placed at the top of the “priorities” of the government seminar for the start of the school year 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 right has stepped up to the plate
Emmanuel Macron distinguishes several forms of violence in society. " There is the one we have known since 2016 on the occasion of public events, " he recalled. It is the work of rather organized groups, extremists, which have an opportunist approach, which are grafted into the demonstrations to have acts of violence ”. A reference to the black block which infiltrated the demonstrations against the reforms of the labor market, pensions and more recently the yellow vests. " Then we have drug-related violence - the Covid has destabilized many networks, " said the Head of State before coming to a final type of violence: " everyday violence ".
The right has been raising the issue for several days on insecurity, which she says has become the " black hole " of Emmanuel Macron's five-year term, thus placing the cursor on a sovereign subject that she wants to put at the heart of the 2022 presidential election. " Those who attract our attention are those who have reduced the means 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.
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 ”.