A shock proposal, which is already causing a lot of reaction.
The president of the Hauts-de-France region and declared presidential candidate for 2022, Xavier Bertrand, indicated this Tuesday morning on Europe 1 that he wanted "an automatic prison sentence, minimum of one year not suitable" for all attacker "of a policeman, a gendarme, a firefighter, a mayor".
"We do not attack those who protect us", strikes the elected, criticizing a "feeling of impunity" and a "process of decivilization".
In the aftermath of Emmanuel Macron's security visit to Montpellier and while the verdict of the Viry-Châtillon appeal trial is strongly criticized by the police unions, he also believes that France is "one of the few countries in the world. a world where every day, there are attacks against the State, a questioning of the police, and there is no response ”.
Xavier Bertrand who wants an automatic prison sentence in the event of an attack against the police or a mayor: "If what I am proposing was in place there could not have been an acquittal" in the trial police officers burned in Viry-Châtillon # Europe1 pic.twitter.com/sKdvxNHQTb
- Europe 1 🎧🌍📻 (@ Europe1) April 20, 2021
"We do not support the police and gendarmes on even days and we let them criticize them on odd days", still annoys Xavier Bertrand.
Breach of the presumption of innocence?
His proposal would go through a "constitutional text".
He will ask "the French to vote on it in the fall following the elections", obviously on condition that he is elected.
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This idea caused a lot of reaction, many Internet users and personalities seeing it as an attack on the presumption of innocence.
"No police officer, no magistrate will agree to substitute the principle of Justice for the logic of the raid", very quickly reacted on Twitter the Minister of Justice (and former lawyer) Eric Dupond-Moretti.
Mr. Bertrand therefore proposes a modification of the constitution to automatically send to prison any person arrested without proof or trial.
No policeman, no magistrate will agree to substitute the principle of Justice for the logic of the raid.
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- Eric Dupond-Moretti (@E_DupondM) April 20, 2021
Xavier Bertrand did not react thereafter. At the end of the morning, however, he published a message on Twitter in tribute to Xavier Jugelé, killed by a terrorist on the Champs-Élysées four years ago to the day.