A procession of police officers paraded Friday morning in Paris, on the avenue des Champs-Elysées, at the call of the Union union, joined by UNSA-Police, Synergie and the Independent Union of Police Commissioners (SICP). Departing from Place de l'Etoile, they were a few dozen at the head of the parade, followed by numerous cars in a concert of horns. They observed a minute of silence in front of the Ministry of the Interior, Place Beauvau, before intoning La Marseillaise.
In the aftermath of demonstrations in the regions, the representatives of the police intended in particular to protest, once again, against the recent announcements by the Minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner, against the background of a movement against police violence and accusations of racism in the police.
PARIS - Union police officers @alliancepolice demonstrate on the Champs-Elysées following Castaner's remarks.
Traffic is partially blocked at Place de l'Etoile.
They feel they can no longer stop in safety. pic.twitter.com/W8bOoOU35L
Monday, the first "cop" of France announced the abandonment of the throttling key, technique of pointing finger, before reversing his decision before the outcry. He also said that a suspension would be "systematically considered for each proven suspicion" of racism, before recommending it when the case is brought to justice. Christophe Castaner has also declared that he is ready to kneel down to pay tribute to the victims of racism, a symbolic gesture that has spread since the death of George Floyd in the United States, at the origin of a world movement.
"The words of Christophe Castaner, it was the drop of water," said Friday Fabien Vanhemelryck, secretary general of the Alliance union, before the Minister of the Interior, whose host he described as "fuse". "President Macron must enforce his police. He asked for "support" from the government, saying that the police, who were in great demand during the Yellow Vests crisis and the confinement, "can't take it anymore."
"Presumption of guilt"
In this context, Marine Le Pen went Friday morning to the police station of Villeneuve-la-Garenne, in the Hauts-de-Seine; A trip which she described as "a visit to support our police forces, who have been let go by their political hierarchy".
"We are establishing a presumption of guilt against them," she said to journalists, predicting that "incidents against them" would "multiply". "If the minister's objective was to worsen the situation, he is taking the right path," continued the member for Pas de Calais. “The minister has never been in his place. It launches the removal of one method of interpellation without implementing another. "
Marine Le Pen: "There is no problem of police violence, there are personal failures" pic.twitter.com/eXUGPr3scC
- BFMTV (@BFMTV) June 12, 2020For the president of the National Rally, there is "not really police violence" but "personal failures", she repeated, denying any "structural problem" in the police. During his speech Sunday, Emmanuel Macron must, according to Marine Le Pen, "reaffirm his support for the police".
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For his part, the deputy LFI Alexis Corbière estimated Friday, on Public Senate, that Christophe Castaner was "a weak minister who must resign" because he "endangers the institution". Right, the deputy LR of the Alpes-Maritimes Eric Ciotti, questioned by Le Figaro, affirmed that "the rupture" between the Minister of the Interior and the police was "total and final".
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