Sébastien Huyghe is Deputy LR of the North, Regional Councilor of Hauts-de-France, and President of the Republicans of the North.
During his interview with the media
Brut
, on December 4, the President of the Republic affirmed the existence of a problem of police violence and facial checks.
What studies and what ethnic statistics, banned in France, support these remarks to allow ourselves to publicly disavow our police officers?
Obviously none.
The Head of State thus recognized an unbearable presumption of guilt on the part of our police officers and gave in to the strategy of victimization of the far left.
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However, the year 2020 will have been that of a surge of hatred against our police forces.
Policemen massacred in Herblay, burned in Viry-Châtillon, lynched on the ground in Paris;
police station stormed in Champigny-sur-Marne, scenes of urban guerrillas in Oyonnax ...
These ultraviolent acts against our police officers are often the work of petty criminals and caïds working with impunity, but also of extreme left groups who wish to attack the state as such.
Sociologist Max Weber had defined the state's legitimate monopoly on violence.
This monopoly, exercised by the police, is today challenged daily by thugs who consider the representatives of the public force as a mere rival gang.
It is time for this to end.
According to data from the Ministry of the Interior, insults and violence against agents of public authority (police, gendarmes, prison guards and firefighters) increased by 72% between 2000 and 2019 and by 148% for what concerns the only violence over the same period!
The Government must take the initiative of a bill aiming to toughen the penalties for attackers of the police
This violence finds its source in a common desire of the aggressors to attack any symbol of state authority, or more simply any symbol of any authority whatsoever.
During the demonstrations of the last Saturday in Paris, this violence was unleashed against men and women committed to our security, but whose working conditions continue to deteriorate.
Numerous police and gendarmes were injured across the country.
If the thugs were arrested, no one knows, at this time, how many of these people were taken into custody, then brought to justice?
The arrest is not a sanction and the too frequent absence of real consequences for acts which are nevertheless unspeakable creates a feeling of impunity largely responsible for the situation.
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“
Fear must change sides,
” we often say, contenting ourselves with words.
The government must take the initiative of a bill aimed at toughening the penalties for attackers of the police and all persons holding public authority.
In his book
On Crimes and Punishments
, the 18th century Italian philosopher Cesare Beccaria indicated that it is not so much the severity of the sentence that matters, but the certainty of its effectiveness.
The authority of punishment must be restored.
The minimum penalties introduced under Nicolas Sarkozy's five-year term in 2007 were an effective response.
Unfortunately, their removal in 2014 by François Hollande, of which Emmanuel Macron was then Deputy Secretary General, was seen as a signal of state weakness.
Should we wait until all the windows of our merchants and restaurateurs are smashed and looted before giving the order to intervene?
The renunciation of sanctioning, sometimes of imprisoning, is taken advantage of by extreme left-wing groups whose determination is reinforced by the absence of a response from the State.
The result is a systematization of violence within demonstrations which, a few years ago, took place in peace.
A large part of the individuals linked to this movement are identified by our intelligence services.
Why not intercept them before the event?
During the five-year term of Nicolas Sarkozy, a systematic identity check during demonstrations of this type had made it possible to avoid many excesses.
Why not go back to this method?
Should we wait until all the windows of our merchants and restaurateurs are smashed and looted before giving the order to intervene?
Who can imagine that Raymond Marcellin or Charles Pasqua with arms dangling, confessing their helplessness in front of scenes of urban guerrillas?
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To renunciation is now added the humiliation of the state, violence against the police being more and more often disseminated on social networks.
As if to immortalize feats of arms.
If the provisions of article 24 of the Global Security bill have been debated, the government's retreat leaves the subject unanswered: how to protect the police and their families from the insults and the stalking they are subjected to on social networks?
Should we wait for a new drama from Magnanville to legislate?
Our police and gendarmes must be able to count on the force of the law and the determination of the state apparatus.
They must also be able to have the means necessary for their action.
Here again, the situation is not satisfactory.
The sovereign security expenditure - army, police, justice - which represented 6.5% of the GDP in 1960 and still 4.5% in 1990, only weighs 2.5% of our national wealth!
This dramatic reduction testifies to the weakening of the means devoted by the State to the exercise of its sovereign prerogatives.
This can not go on.
Our law enforcement agencies must be supported by our leaders, as they are by the majority of the population
Priority must indeed be given to regal rearmament.
And it's not all a matter of numbers: the number of French police officers is higher than the European average in relation to its population.
Police officers must be able to concentrate on the heart of their mission: the protection of the French.
The burden of administrative tasks should no longer fall on them.
Our police must specialize in the face of ever more specific forms of crime and violence, especially on social networks.
We must also modernize it with better quality training in order to have a police force that is responsive to new technologies.
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But above all, our police forces must be supported by our leaders, as they are by the majority of the population, far from dogmas but close to the lives of the French.
Charles Péguy wrote “
order, and order alone, ultimately makes freedom
”.
The police are not only the guardians of the Republic, they are above all its last bulwark.
