He tackled them again.
Guest of RTL this Thursday morning, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin criticized the absence of a position taken on violence against the police during the Parisian demonstration of several professional footballers, pointing, without citing them, Kylian Mbappé and Antoine Griezmann.
“To respect, you have to be respectable.
This is what I say to the police and the gendarmes, he stressed at first.
At the same time, I find that some have selective dignity.
We can also be particularly hurt by what our country represents, the French flag when we see a police commissioner who must now wear an iron splint instead of her arm because she took a paving stone while she was trying to rescue people, that a 50-year-old major was beaten to the ground and, instead of helping him, we take his phone and film.
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Griezmann, Mbappé, Gobert: French athletes are
stepping up to the plate
against police violence
"Some have selective dignity", said the Minister of the Interior @GDarmanin in #RTLMatin with @VenturaAlba
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- RTL France (@RTLFrance) December 3, 2020
The tenant of Place Beauvau had already explained "having hurt my France by not hearing any reaction from millionaire footballers about the 98 police officers injured on Saturday", during his visit to representatives of the police injured during the demonstrations of Saturday against the Security law.
His expression alludes to the exit of Antoine Griezmann on social networks during the broadcast of videos of the beating of music producer Michel Zecler.
The Barça striker and the France team had challenged Gerald Darmanin on Twitter.
Two other world champions, Kylian Mbappé and Benjamin Mendy, had also reacted.
Other French athletes such as PSG defender Layvin Kurzawa, Sevilla FC player Jules Koundé and NBA basketball player Rudy Gobert were also moved by the video broadcast by the Loopsider media.
