The media release of Antoine Griezmann or Kylian Mbappé, uncommon on this type of societal subject, was heard up to the highest summit of the State.
In particular Place Beauvau.
Present in RTL studios this Thursday morning, the Minister of the Interior was questioned to give his feelings on the words of the two world champions, as well as other sportsmen, who condemned last week the police violence on a producer at the entrance of his music studio in the XVII arrondissement of Paris.
And Gérald Darmanin was moved by the “selective dignity” of the protagonists, alluding to the lack of support for the police forces, victims of violence too.
"Gérald Darmanin had in particular confided" to have had pain (s) in France by not hearing any reaction from millionaire footballers about the 98 police officers injured on Saturday "
Gérald Darmanin at Parisien this weekend
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"Some have selective dignity", said the Minister of the Interior @GDarmanin in #RTLMatin with @VenturaAlba
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"I condemn (the police violence on the producer, editor's note) and the police of the Republic should not have any doubts about its ethics, replied the Minister on RTL before delivering the bottom of his thoughts on the remarkable release of sportsmen on the subject.
To respect, you have to be respectable.
That's what I tell the police and the gendarmes.
At the same time, I find that some have selective dignity.
You can also be particularly hurt when you see a police superintendent who now has to wear an iron splint instead of her arm because she took a paving stone while trying to rescue people, a major 50-year-old was beaten to the ground and that, instead of helping him, we take his phone and film.
When I was little, I was told that I had to help the police.
I sometimes regret the drift of a part of society. ”
Words that echo those already made by the Minister last weekend and relayed in
Le Parisien
about the police officers assaulted during recent demonstrations.
Gérald Darmanin had in particular confided "to have had pain (s) in France by not hearing any reaction from millionaire footballers about the 98 police officers injured on Saturday".
As a reminder, last Thursday, after viewing the images of the beating of the police on the music producer, Antoine Griezmann wrote on Twitter: "I have pain in my France".
Before Kylian Mbappé also expresses himself by a message.
“Unsustainable video.
Unacceptable violence ", before quoting the words of the rapper Diam's:" My France has values, principles and codes ... My France does not live in lies With heart and rage, the light, not in the shadows.
My France to me it mixes, yeah, it's a rainbow She disturbs you, I know that, because she doesn't want you as a model ”.
Other sportsmen like Samuel Umtiti, Jules Koundé or even basketball player Rudy Gobert had also expressed their frank disapproval.
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