"The police mobilization of May 19 is in no way a tribute to the murdered police officers, it is a demonstration for a book of corporate demands as shown by the leaflets of the police organizations", explained Jean-Luc Mélenchon on the networks social, before a press release from the entire group of LFI deputies.
This demonstration comes several weeks after the murder of Brigadier Eric Masson in Avignon and the terrorist assassination of Stéphanie Monfeture in Rambouillet (Yvelines).
Police demonstration: we will not go.
Here's why: https://t.co/8BMdMDesFX pic.twitter.com/p10SqXIGps
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon (@JLMelenchon) May 18, 2021
And the LFI deputies to add in their press release: "We will not participate because we do not share the demands on the basis of which the police organizations call for demonstrations, namely increased criminal severity against the aggressors of the forces of the order ”.
According to them, “the current penal code already provides that the murder of a police officer can be punished with life imprisonment.
What else ?
They add.
"We are for a real republican national police force of proximity in the service of the general interest and the French people", resumes LFI.
"We will not contribute to the general atmosphere of security escalation"
In addition, the Insoumis believe that "the duo Gérald Darmanin (Minister of the Interior) and Marine Le Pen (president of the National Gathering) give the meaning of this event by deciding to go there".
"We will not contribute to the general atmosphere of security escalation," they warn.
"Gérald Darmanin is not going to demonstrate against himself, he will be in his role of Minister of the Interior, that is to say the first policeman of France, he will go to greet the police at a time when it is essential that the whole nation shows how much we are behind our police forces ”, explained on LCI the boss of LREM, Stanislas Guerini, specifying that his movement would participate in the rally.
While security has once again become a theme of the electoral campaign, a few weeks from the regional and one year from the presidential election, many elected officials should be present at this gathering of police officers, including on the left since the head of the PS Olivier Faure , of the PCF Fabien Roussel and the probable candidate for the ecological primary of September Yannick Jadot but also Jordan Bardella of the National Rally have announced their arrival.
Unions reject "political recovery"
For their part, the police unions organizing the demonstration in front of the National Assembly on Wednesday called "for a" rally without political recovery ".
According to them, this demonstration should only be a demonstration of “the support of the population for its republican police.
"" This rally will therefore not be the platform of any party or any member of the government, "they write in a joint statement.
"Everyone is free to participate", but "no politician will be able to access the platform or speak there", they add.
The unions on the other hand asked the "citizens" to join them, the demonstration must first be, according to the organizations, a demonstration of the "support of the population to its republican police force".
