She claims to have been misunderstood.
Claire Hédon, the Defender of Rights, sparked a heated controversy by offering Friday on France Info an experiment for
"stopping identity control"
in certain areas.
"In 95% of cases the identity checks do not give anything"
, she assured, affirming that this situation was
"unbearable"
, especially among young people.
The Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, immediately opposed this measure by declaring Monday evening from a police station in Poissy (Yvelines) that he
"would not set up lawless and non-control zones "
.
“A lot of people
” did not understand “
my thought”,
regretted Claire Hédon, who wanted to
“refine”
her position this Tuesday morning on Europe 1.
"I never wanted to put an end to identity checks"
“I never wanted to end identity checks
,” she said, although she defended the opposite four days earlier.
“Of course there is a time when you need these controls.
When there is a breach of public order, when there is suspicious behavior, when there is a requisition from the prosecutor.
Of course we need controls.
Of course you need the presence of the police in the neighborhoods, but that does not mean permanently controlling identity, ”
she said.
The Defender of Rights especially pleads for better traceability of these controls.
“There are some exceedingly difficult neighborhoods, but what I'm saying is that there are discriminatory identity checks.
The Court of Cassation recognized this in 2016. The difficulty is that it is difficult to assess the number of these identity checks and their reason, ”
she regretted.