Prime Minister Jean Castex assured Monday, October 12, that the government would be "
intractable
" in the face of the perpetrators of attacks against police officers, after that of a police station in Champigny-sur-Marne by around forty people fired by mortars from fireworks Saturday night.
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“
When we see a police station attacked, as recently in Champigny-sur-Marne, when we see two police officers, as in Val-d'Oise last week, savagely attacked, we say to ourselves that it is the State and the Republic which are targeted,
”said the Prime Minister on Franceinfo.
"
We will be intractable,
" he added.
"
The police in Champigny-sur-Marne, from what I know of the facts, showed immense composure, they acted perfectly and I fully support them, like the Minister of the Interior who went there last night
”.
He estimated that “
in what is happening in Champigny or elsewhere, there is the fact that all this traffic is disturbed by the means that we use.
They don't like it, they react, but they will have to deal with us, we will not let it go,
”he assured.
The fight against insecurity, a "priority"
Insecurity "
is the weak point of our country, we must react at all costs and we are doing it
", he also acknowledged.
He assured that he "
would give the necessary means
" to the police, recalling that 10,000 additional police posts must be created over the five-year term of Emmanuel Macron and that the justice budget will increase by 8% in 2021 to “
strengthen the penal response
”.
The government is also deploying "
a new tool
", "
integrated security contracts
", the first of which was signed with the town hall in Toulouse where Mr. Castex announced on Friday October 9 the arrival by the end of 2021 of 111 police officers national.
The City will for its part unlock new human and material resources.
Asked whether it was necessary to arm the municipal police officers, Jean Castex indicated that the government would "
review the role of the municipal police forces and strengthen them
", around "
the question of arming
" and "
the question of their prerogatives in in the establishment of offenses
”.
"
A proposal led by two deputies will soon be examined in the National Assembly and it is within this framework that we will act
", he said.