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Is the presence of a minister in a demonstration unprecedented?

2021-05-21T02:39:34.483Z


VERIFICATION - Organized in front of the Assembly on May 19, a demonstration will bring together police, citizens and elected officials to protest against the working conditions of the police. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin will also be present. Is he the first to take such ...


THE QUESTION.

While the police have planned to meet Wednesday, May 19 in front of the National Assembly, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin announced that he would also be present.

Two weeks after the death of Eric Masson killed on the sidelines of an intervention in Avignon, the police intend to pay tribute to their colleague.

But in a context where security is at the heart of concerns, they will also protest against their working conditions and the violence to which they are regularly subjected.

They will make their complaints heard, such as the implementation of minimum sentences for law enforcement aggressors.

Demands which will be addressed directly to the ... Minister of the Interior.

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Quickly criticized, Gerald Darmanin justified his arrival by the desire to say his "

support

" to the police.

"

It is a demonstration for the Republic

", he specified, estimating that "

we are all together in the same boat to fight against insecurity.

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Source: lefigaro

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