The mayor of Paris and candidate for her re-election Anne Hidalgo called Wednesday, faced with police violence, the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner to "look at what is happening today at the police headquarters" and to return to the " Grimaud doctrine of policing. An exit which comes a few days after new scenes of violence during a demonstration in Paris of yellow vests and against the pension reform.
Asked about France Inter to find out if she was asking for the resignation of the Paris police prefect Didier Lallement, whom several political leaders demanded after, in particular, the dissemination of a video showing a policeman hitting a protester on the ground, Ms. Hidalgo replied that she "Do not ask for sanctions".
. @ Anne_Hidalgo, on the maintenance of order in Paris: "There is a problem of increasing insecurity in Paris, the Minister of the Interior should take a closer look at what is happening in the # Police Prefecture "# municipales2020 # le79Inter pic.twitter.com/7w7edPxjAN
- France Inter (@franceinter) January 22, 2020"Hitting a protester who fell to the ground is hitting yourself"
But “it is absolutely essential that the Paris prefect of police revert to the Grimaud doctrine, the prefect of 1968, who was one of the thinkers of the doctrine in matters of maintenance of order, that is to say allow 'free expression of all demonstrations, and avoid death or injury.' "The minister should take a closer look at what is happening today at the police headquarters," she added.
Prefect of the Paris police during the events of May 1968, the name of Maurice Grimaud remains attached to his management of the maintenance of order which had made it possible to prevent the clashes from causing deaths. In particular, he then wrote a letter to the police, in which he stressed that "hitting a protester who has fallen to the ground is hitting yourself by appearing in a light that affects the entire police function." "
