The appeal trial of the Viry-Châtillon attack ended not without difficulty on Sunday, but its verdict opens a heated debate.
By proposing to introduce "a minimum automatic prison sentence" for attackers of police officers, Xavier Bertrand, president (DVD) of the Hauts-de-France region, candidate for his succession and declared candidate for the next presidential election, moved up to to the Minister of Justice.
Eric Dupond-Moretti spoke on Twitter on Tuesday to denounce this proposal from Xavier Bertrand, but he drives the point home a little more this Wednesday on RTL and denounces "an enormity".
This proposal is, he says, "a culpable lightness for someone who wants to be President of the Republic".
“
(Xavier Bertrand)
said
With my proposal, there would have been no acquittal
.
Do you realize the enormity of this matter?
», Annoys Éric Dupond-Moretti.
“Basically, it suffices to arrest people accused of violence against police officers for them to be automatically convicted?
"
"I spoke not of a roundup, but of the logic of the roundup"
And the minister to develop what, according to him, constitutes a misunderstanding of the judicial authorities.
“If justice means calling people out and condemning them, with the risk of condemning innocent people, […] it's an enormity, tackles the Minister of Justice on RTL.
We must of course challenge.
Then there must be judicial work, done by magistrates who have no complacency, a priori, for the attackers of the police.
"
Reacting on Tuesday on his Twitter account, Eric Dupond-Moretti was also shocked by his comments, using the term “roundup” to scratch Xavier Bertrand's proposal.
Sorry @E_DupondM the use of the word “roundup” to respond to @xavierbertrand's proposal is shocking.
As the successor of Robert Badinter who, like my parents, experienced the “real” roundups, you should apologize! #DupondMoretti #raffle #Bertrand
- Ariel Goldmann (@GOLDMANNAriel) April 20, 2021
"I spoke not of a raid, but of raid logic," he defends himself, without offering the apologies hoped for by the president of the Unified Jewish Social Fund, Ariel Goldmann.
"Did he read everything I said?"
I don't know, ”replied the minister on RTL.
This Wednesday, Eric Dupond-Moretti is not alone in tackling Xavier Bertrand's proposal. For Sébastien Chenu, also a candidate for regional in Hauts-de-France but for the National Gathering, the idea submitted by his opponent is that of “the dunce who wants to pass himself off as the best student”. "We will not forget that Xavier Bertrand was one of the ministers who supported policies to reduce the number of police officers in our country," slips the head of the RN list at the microphone of LCI this Wednesday.