It's unusual enough to be underlined.
Especially coming from Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
On the eve of Labor Day, the date of the next social mobilization against, among other things, the pension reform, Jean-Luc Mélenchon calls on the police and the gendarmes to come and swell the ranks of the mobilization.
"Your interest is to join the fight, to be present on May 1, to strike,"
urged the founder of France Insoumise in a Youtube video posted this Friday.
“
Enough words, enough comedy, enough postures.
Retirement at 64 is also for the police.
The fight also concerns them
, ”also launched Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
While relations between the rebellious leader and the police unions are very degraded and even inflammable, the former MP for Marseille even goes so far as to defend them.
"
We don't give up.
(...) It has always been a rather easy game of power to make people believe, with a few helpers here and there, that those who fight for social rights are enemies of the police.
It doesn't make sense
, ” belches the former presidential candidate.
According to him, the police “
are used to persecute in every possible way people who are just demonstrating.
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A change of speech for Jean-Luc Mélenchon who usually never misses an opportunity to accuse the police of "violence" or even blunders against the processions.
And to initiate an attempt at reconciliation by asking the police and the gendarmes to
“turn the page on the controversies that make no sense between the main left opposition force that is the movement of the Insoumis and
(their, Ed. )
own interests.”
Way for the former pretender to the Elysee Palace warns the peacekeepers against the executive:
“If you believe that the power that caresses your head will protect you, you are wrong.
»
In order to support his reasoning, Jean-Luc Mélenchon wants to recall
“how”
the State would have
“despised the gendarmes, saying that it was because they did not understand anything that they had confiscated the pans from demonstrators .”
To prevent any risk of overflow during visits by the President of the Republic or ministers to France, several prefectural orders have in fact been issued in recent days to prohibit the use of saucepans - a noisy symbol of opposition to pension reform. .
Contested decisions which were then the subject of intense political arms between government and opposition.
