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Global security law, muscular evacuation of migrants in Paris ... The left denounces a "liberticidal" drift

2020-11-24T23:54:22.853Z


Elected Insubordinate, environmentalists and socialists denounce in unison the intervention of the police Place de la République Monday evening.


"

Extremely shocking

"

images

.

The condemnations are unanimous on the side of the left, after the evacuation of hundreds of migrants, Place de la République in Paris on Monday evening.

While videos showing a muscular intervention - and beatings targeting at least one journalist - circulated on social networks, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, was moved on Twitter, indicating to have ordered a report "

Detailed

" of the facts to the Prefect of Police, expected this Tuesday noon.

Many elected officials have already seen another explanation: they have pointed to the responsibility of the bill on "global security", which must be voted on Tuesday in the National Assembly, and which according to them would have contributed to disinhibit the police.

It is a "

repression (...) disproportionate

", declared the rebellious Éric Coquerel, guest on France Info this Tuesday.

Present the day before Place de la République in Paris, the deputy said himself "

jostled by the

police

"

then "

stuck

" in a street alongside other elected officials and journalists.

For the elected representative of Seine-Saint-Denis, “

this obviously has a link with the global security law, that is to say that there is no longer any brake on this repression.

"A sentence completed by his colleague Melenchonist Adrien Quatennens, who underlines on social networks"

an endless liberticidal and security gear.

""

So withdraw your comprehensive security bill, otherwise these images, which are as shocking as they are useful, will no longer be able to be broadcast!

», Declared the elected official, while article 24 which penalizes the malicious dissemination of the image of the police forces causes a strong controversy.

A "crime to inform"

Same story on the side of environmentalists.

Invited on Europe 1 this Tuesday, Yannick Jadot accused the government of having created a "

crime to inform."

"According to the MEP,"

from the moment you organize and announce that it will no longer be possible to inform about what is happening in the demonstrations, you are in fact creating an offense to inform.

"And to continue:"

There is in this country a drift of liberticide and I call on the President of the Republic to much more discernment, much more lucidity.

"

The secretary general of the EELV party, Julien Bayou, also spoke out against "

the police who beat journalists."

""

LREM, wake up!

", He launched on Twitter, while some members of the majority could abstain during the vote of the bill.

The ecologist Sandrine Rousseau, for her part, challenged the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.

When are you going to stop this massacre of our values ​​of welcome and fraternity?

When are you going to stop violating our freedoms?

She asked him.

To read also: "The comprehensive security law will not respond to the dissatisfaction of the French vis-à-vis their security"

The tone was also anger and emotion among the socialists.

The deputy of the Landes, Boris Vallaud, spoke of his "

consternation and sadness

".

"

This government is failing in all its duties, starting with that of humanity,

" he lamented.

Olivier Faure, first secretary of the party, for his part considered that the government preferred "to

drive away poverty with batons rather than to seek solutions.

"

Source: lefigaro

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