"
The drug traffickers
" "are
not going to win
", said Sunday, May 9 the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin during a visit to the Cergy-Pontoise police station where he paid tribute to the policeman killed in Avignon on a point of deal.
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"
It's my way of supporting
" the police, he told the press, a few hours after the tribute paid by a crowd, in Avignon, to the policeman Eric Masson, killed Wednesday.
Gérald Darmanin will travel to Avignon on Tuesday afternoon with Prime Minister Jean Castex for a national tribute to the official.
In Cergy-Pontoise, Gérald Darmanin, presenting himself as “
the lawyer for the police
”, again defended “
the very important work of harassment
” of the points of deals carried out by the police and gendarmes, adding: “
The traffickers do not go win
”.
"
Delinquency affects the poorest among us
", continued the minister who considers the fight against drug trafficking as "
the mother of all battles
", an expression that President Emmanuel Macron recently used.
The police are "
the first social interveners
", "
they are sent to protect the weakest among us
", he added, judging this fight "
essential to save the most children of the Republic of this shit that is drugs
”.
