A busy Friday for the Head of State.
After visiting Necker Hospital, Emmanuel Macron delivered this Friday to an exercise on which he was obviously relying a lot and which he likes.
A long video interview given to the online media Brut.
With the objective of addressing the youth, an electorate with which certain points of tension have been felt in recent months.
In recent weeks, the subject of police violence has come like a slap on the cheek of the executive.
The images of the arrest of Michel Zecler were shocking.
Those of the evacuation of the migrant camp on Place de la République also.
Many young people demonstrated across the country on Saturday, November 28, against the Global Security Law and its much-maligned article 24.
ON POLICE VIOLENCE
Macron defends the evacuation of Place de la République
The journalist Rémy Buisine, who launches the interview, begins precisely on the evacuation of the camp in Paris.
"I would not like to overwhelm the police officers who intervened that evening, because they are placed in situations for which they are not always trained", replies Emmanuel Macron.
The Head of State recognizes that despite his campaign promises, the situation is still difficult, and that men in our country are still sleeping in the streets because of migratory pressure.
"It was a good decision to allow the evacuation of the Place de la République", he defends.
Emmanuel Macron reaffirms his attachment to the right of asylum.
“But today, it is hijacked by networks and traffickers to help illegal immigration networks.
Returning to the interventions of recent weeks, he explains that, "when the police intervene, they must always do so within an exemplary ethical framework.
However, he refuses to comment on situations that have not been judged.
"There is police violence"
Regarding the aggression of Michel Zecler, the President of the Republic reiterates the feeling of shame felt on discovering the images.
“What made us all ashamed is that the police are not exemplary.
All the police felt the same.
You have to understand why they got there.
Nothing excuses it.
"Denouncing inadmissible violence, he said he wanted" to understand why this behavior was possible.
I need to understand.
The sanction must be implacable so as not to smear the institution of police officers.
"
However, Emmanuel Macron calls for "not to have" just a look at violence ".
"There is violence in our society, there are violent police officers", he admits, recalling however that police officers are also targeted, like this police commissioner, Place de la Bastille, last weekend , "Attacked by madmen, wild people".
He recognizes that police violence exists, deplores a racism that exists just as much in the country.
But he also considers, and regrets, that the wording "police violence" is politicized.
To respond to the problem, the Head of State believes that it is necessary to achieve better supervision of the police and more transparency, in particular through the deployment of pedestrian cameras from the month of June.
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A platform against discrimination
This is another observation of failure drawn up by Emmanuel Macron: discrimination persists in the country.
The Head of State addresses the problem of facies checks.
"It's true that today, when you have a skin color that is not white, you are much more controlled," he laments.
The only way to move, according to him, is to set up a common platform so that people can denounce these facts.
Emmanuel Macron announces the launch of a large survey from January on the Internet where people can say what they are discriminated against and where.
This national platform managed by the State, the defender of rights and associations such as Licra, will be accompanied by a telephone number to report police discrimination or to benefit from a follow-up with a view to filing a complaint. complaint.
Give real independence to IGPN
While several voices within the political sphere criticize the police, Emmanuel Macron affirms that “the IGPN must be given real independence”, with “more transparency on the monitoring”.
However, he refuses to throw everything in the trash.
“When the facts are serious, there is justice which is seized,” he assures us, considering it wrong to say “that the institutions are passive and wait for the stir” before reacting.
Article 24: leave the democratic debate
Asked about the future of article 24 of the Global Security Law, strongly criticized, the Head of State recalls that the law stems from a parliamentary initiative.
“We must let democratic life live, it is not indignation that makes the laws.
Senators can amend it, and it will come back to the assembly, and members of Parliament can rewrite it.
Emmanuel Macron says he shares the objectives set by Gérald Darmanin.
“What I don't want is for people to reduce freedoms to achieve these goals.
I think we can improve the system.
"
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The Head of State guarantees that journalists and citizens will be able to continue to “film and broadcast images”.
Asked about the image given by these debates abroad, he regrets a “foreign bubble” which gives this image of the country.
"We are not Hungary, Turkey or other", he notes, before defending the creation of the dedicated mission, which will therefore not be responsible for rewriting article 24 but will not reflect on the subject.
ON SECULARITY
After Samuel Paty's death, "we were very alone",
Asked about international debates, Emmanuel Macron refuses to respond to the attacks formulated a few hours earlier by his Turkish counterpart Erdogan.
“I am telling you that there is violence in the country, I will not respond with violence.
Leaders gave an example of violence ”.
He embraces the defense of French values, regretting the criticisms formulated abroad on our relationship to secularism.
“I was attacked abroad.
There is not a country like us that has protected freedom of expression like us.
We called into question our freedom of expression ”.
He deplores having found himself "very alone" after the death of Samuel Paty.
"Evil is in us"
On December 9, the bill against separatism will be presented to the Council of Ministers.
Ahead of this important meeting, the president wants to mobilize young people on this theme.
During his speech on September 4 at the Pantheon, he called on young people to "take up the torch" and "to keep the Republican promise alive" in the face of "the threats hanging over it".
On the subject, Emmanuel Macron claims to put words on the evil affecting the country.
"Evil is in us," he assures us.
It is not true to say that he will be chased away by a wave of a magic wand or a single, extremely muscular action ”.
According to him, “those who have this Islamist ideology thrive on our failures.
"That of" French integration ".
And to develop: “We left the idea to our young and old that they were not part of France.
"
On the subject of integration, Emmanuel Macron evokes failures of the French nation.
“I think our society has not thought about its past.
We have millions of our young and old who come from the African continent.
We have a generation that is talking about colonization again, when it has never experienced it.
I don't think we knew how to talk to them.
"
"No problem with Islam"
At the end of home instruction, Emmanuel Macron says he wants to fight against groups that convey an ideology.
"We have closed several establishments which received children declared as following home schooling", while they were received in structures in which they were instilled with values contrary to those of the Republic.
He says he wants to find the right exceptions so as not to penalize everyone.
Asked about the Mila affair, this high school student threatened with death for having criticized Islam, Emmanuel Macron wishes to defend her.
“We went crazy.
People do not respect a fundamental principle of the republic, secularism.
He wants to remind him that France has no problem with Islam.
“We built our republic in the separation between the political and the religious […] Milla, it is an intolerable case.
She is the victim of people who believe that one cannot criticize religion in France.
FOR YOUTH
Aid for the "covid generation"
On October 14, the President of the Republic answered questions from TF1 and France on the coronavirus crisis.
Emmanuel Macron then had a word for the youth.
“Yes, it's hard to be 20 in 2020. It's hard.
So I will never teach our young people a lesson because they are the ones who, honestly, live a terrible sacrifice, canceled exams, anguish for training, anguish to find a first job.
"
Emmanuel Macron now calls on young people, even if they suffer from confinement, to respect collective constraints, as unprecedented as they are, to "take care of others".
He recognizes that "the confinement is extraordinarily unfair".
"It's harder when you're young, you have a materially more precarious life, less means".
In terms of responses, the Head of State defends the “one young person, one solution” plan, with his dedicated website.
He recalls the efforts made on training and civic services.
For students, he reminds us that all university restaurants remain open with meals at one euro.
“We have already implemented aid and if it continues we will put more in the first quarter.
"
The Head of State mentions two tracks in order to remedy the "holes in the racket": to think about recreating exceptional aid or to reforming student grants.
He recalls his opposition to the extension of the RSA for those under 25.
Early reopening in the universities
On social media, many students regretted that universities did not reopen their doors before the end of January.
On this point, Emmanuel Macron notes that he has been criticized in the past for opening places of teaching too quickly and believes that students can hold more in non-presence.
He recalls that discussions have started to consider reopening earlier, first with the hours of tutorials and possible lessons in half-lecture hall.
ON COVID
"I do not believe in compulsory vaccination"
On the subject of Covid, Emmanuel Macron is asked about the non-compulsory nature of vaccination.
"I do not believe in compulsory vaccination for this vaccine," he explains, adding that we did not yet know everything, neither on the vaccines in development, nor on the virus.
"I believe much more in the work of conviction through transparency than in obligation", he continues.
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Emmanuel Macron readily recognizes failures in the management of the crisis, starting with the masks.
“The mask problem, all countries have had it.
We had some failures in securing the supply ”.
He calls for scientists to speak.
"It was the WHO who said that it was not an answer, then who said that it was an instrument," he recalls, before conceding the need to "say what we have failure, explain it, correct it and improve it ”.
According to him, this is the condition for the quest for collective trust.
ON ECOLOGY
A failure on glyphosate
Asked about ecology, Emmanuel Macron admits a failure after backpedaling on the ban of glyphosate.
"We did not succeed because the others stayed at a higher pace," he replies, referring to our European neighbors ".
For him, “the ban on glyphosate must be combined with support for farmers.
If I forbid them glyphosate without a solution, I tell them "you will go and clear the brush by hand and dozens of hours of work are lost".
"
On the citizens' convention
Emmanuel Macron was accused of having reneged on several promises made after the submission of the proposals of the citizens' convention.
He prefers to evoke the efforts undertaken and which go in the direction of this work.
For example, he defends the budgets allocated to thermal renovation.
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But he believes that any decision involves impact studies to measure their effectiveness.
“I have 150 citizens and I respect them as parliamentarians.
But I'm not going to take their work and say this is the Bible!
He annoyed, before conceding only three withdrawals on the proposals of the convention.
“No one has done as much as us for three years.
We are in the process of closing all the coal-fired power stations.
We converted 800,000 vehicles to a new generation.
We stopped the projects that everyone left lying around: Notre-Dame-des-Landes, Europa City ”.
The Head of State then presents the major challenges facing the country in the ecological field and defends its reforms.
“We must speed up the thermal renovation of buildings.
We need to convert homes that waste energy, ”he begins, referring to“ one euro boilers ”.
The Head of State intends to promote incentives for the use of public transport and cycling.
And cites a big challenge: "the conversion of the old car fleet to the new".
INEQUALITY AND SEXISM
Fight against violence against women
"Each violence against women is too much violence," says the President of the Republic, who calls for zero tolerance.
He recalls having created an offense under the law against street harassment, which would have resulted in a little more than 2,000 convictions.
For Emmanuel Macron, efforts must continue, helping to free speech.
We are in the process of simplifying the complaints, he explains, recalling having set up cells within the justice system.
Measures expected for precarious women
The Head of State is questioned in the wake of the problem of menstrual insecurity, the difficulties or the lack of access of regulated people to hygienic protection, due to their poverty.
He says he wants "to move forward on free hygiene protection, especially for very precarious women in the street" and promises a "very concrete response in the first half of 2021".
MACRON CANDIDATE?
The head of state refuses to formalize his candidacy for the 2022 presidential election. "I built myself in a spirit of convincing," he eludes.
Maybe I won't be able to be a candidate, maybe I will do hard things that will make it impossible for me to be a candidate, ”he concludes.