Rachida Dati calls for the state to "
impose
" an armed municipal police force in towns with more than 100,000 inhabitants, in an interview published Thursday in L'Union de Reims.
“
I hope that for any municipality with more than 100,000 inhabitants, the State will impose the establishment of an armed municipal police.
We cannot entrust a mission of public tranquility to mayors and accept that they refuse to take it up.
We must force them to act,
”says the former Sarkozy minister, who is due to go to Reims on Friday.
The mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris said to have "
the feeling that some refuse to talk about the safety of the French under the cover of a health crisis
" and that "
this dangerous political calculation raises the extremes
".
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The former Minister of Justice accused the PS mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, at the end of September of being "
absent subscribers
" in the face of a delinquency which, according to her, "
explodes
" in the capital.
She had once again called for the establishment of an "
armed and trained municipal police
".
The creation of an unarmed municipal police in Paris should soon return to the menu of parliamentary work and the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin said that the government was in favor.
Rachida Dati also disagrees with the LR mayor of Reims Arnaud Robinet, who wants to legalize the consumption of cannabis.
She pleads for "
breaking the trafficking
" of narcotics thanks to a "
coordinated policy which integrates the fight against social fraud, money laundering, but also a city policy
".
In the
Journal du Dimanche
of October 4, 80 deputies and LR senators and related parties expressed in a forum their opposition to the legalization of cannabis consumption, after a reverse request from three LR mayors, Mr. Robinet, Gil Avérous (Châteauroux) , and Boris Ravignon (Charleville-Mézières).