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Police demonstration: a pressure surge with very political issues

2021-05-22T21:20:05.133Z


Some 35,000 police officers beat the streets in Paris on Wednesday, demanding harsher sentences for their attackers. Members of government


It is a tricolor scarf worn over the shoulder that slips through a cloud of neon orange armbands, branded "police".

The police beat the pavement this Wednesday, May 19 at the gates of the National Assembly, to demand heavier sentences against the attackers of police officers, after the death of colleagues killed in the exercise of their functions.

Elected officials from all sides jumped at the opportunity to reiterate their support for a suffering profession.

Or, at least, not be accused of missing the call.

It is past 1 pm, the sky is teasing the umbrellas which unfold and then fold back.

Not enough to shower the motivation - or the anger - of some 35,000 demonstrators (according to the organizers) massed in front of the platform, two weeks after the murder of Brigadier Eric Masson in Avignon.

The actor Gérard Lanvin or the former rugby player Vincent Moscato will act as guest stars.

The unions, them, hammer: "Legislate to better protect" the police;

"The problem with the police is justice."

The Keeper of the Seals, Éric Dupond-Moretti, is heavily whistled on numerous occasions.

"There is a campaign coming"

As security issues are always one of the stakes of electoral campaigns, this “citizens' march” is on the agenda of politicians as well as that of the government. A party leader, on the right, confides: “From the moment the first

(political, editor's note)

goes, everyone goes. There is a campaign coming up. I didn't intend to go there, but I'm going ”.

We will have seen executives from almost all parties marching.

And at the forefront of policies, the Minister of the Interior himself.

Gérald Darmanin, the boss of Place Beauvau, passed a short head to reiterate his "support".

“Schizophrenic”, we stifled in the opposition.

It was also on Wednesday that the government had chosen to table an amendment providing for increasing the security sentence to 30 years for people sentenced to life imprisonment for a crime committed against a police officer or gendarme.

Happy timing.

Also read Darmanin at the police demonstration: "A way of telling them that I love them and that I support them"

The extended family of Republicans also went there with their photo in front of the Palais Bourbon - the regional candidates and presidential aspirants Xavier Bertrand, Valérie Pécresse and Laurent Wauquiez included.

The National Gathering had also asked its elected officials to come in force, in order to take care of a corporation to which it makes the eyes of Chimene.

And who is more and more tempted, according to the polls, to return it to him at the polls.

Traveling to Bordeaux, Marine Le Pen has outbid, and asked for "extremely harsh criminal consequences" for anyone attacking the police.

Very to the right again, the silhouettes of Robert Ménard, Philippe de Villiers or the polemicist Eric Zemmour have been seen.

"All this is political scavenging"

Demonstrating alongside the far right is what plunged the left into embarrassment. Without supporting the demands of the police unions, several tried to justify their presence. Thus Yannick Jadot, head of the gondola of Europe Ecology - the Greens (EELV), said his "solidarity" with the police, wishing "to avoid there being a schism between the police and society". And then also "do not leave the police" in the arms of the RN. The head of the PS, Olivier Faure, leather on his shoulders, wants him compassionate: "they do not have the means to carry out their mission successfully". The rebels, absent, denounced a "demonstration of an ostensibly factious nature".

"It's stupid and tasteless to try to make believe that if the security sentence for police crimes is increased and the automation of sentences restored, it will prevent this young suspected dealer from killing the police officer Eric Masson", comments to du Parisien - Today in France Sebastian Roché, research director at the CNRS, specialist in security issues. And to distinguish between "the malaise of the police officers [which] is real", and the unions which would be "in a competition between them, in the radicalization". If for his part "heard the cry of the police", the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti called on him, in the National Assembly, not to "oppose justice and the police".

In the middle of his colleagues, Gaël, quadra pepper and salt, head of the Anti-Crime Brigade (BAC) in the suburbs, confides his dismay. “All that is political scavenging. But I understand, the elections are coming ”. He continues, the cold anger contained in the mask: “Darmanin, his role is to be there. But he is disconnected from the field. For us, nothing will happen. "

Source: leparis

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