Four days after two plainclothes police officers were shot in Herblay (Val-d'Oise), the attack on a police station in Champigny-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne) sparked a concert of indignation.
Starting with those of the Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, who expressed in a tweet his "total support" for the police "who do a difficult job".
"The little guys do not impress anyone and do not discourage our work against narcotics," he added.
The prefect of police Didier Lallement also got carried away on the social network against “these intolerable acts”.
"Stop the anti-cop hatred!"
"
"There was a will to break the cop", regretted on CNews Laurent Jeanne, the LR mayor of Champigny, denouncing an "organized attack" in order to "do battle with the police".
Police station attacked: according to Laurent Jeanne, mayor of Champigny-sur-Marne, "there was a will to break the cop" #LaMatinaleWeekEnd pic.twitter.com/9QhxX7EetE
- CNEWS (@CNEWS) October 11, 2020
“Stop impunity and anti-cop hatred!
», Added the deputy LR Éric Ciotti.
“In 24 hours, our police officers threatened with death in Bron and a police station violently targeted in Champigny-sur-Marne,” he lamented on the social network.
VIDEO. Champigny-sur-Marne: the police station attacked by 40 individuals armed with mortars
"These scenes of war are intolerable", regretted the president LR of the Ile-de-France region Valérie Pécresse, on BFMTV.
Valérie Pécresse (@vpecresse) affirms that the Champigny-sur-Marne police station "was identified as one of the police stations to be secured as a priority" pic.twitter.com/7H7pNlq5QN
- BFMTV (@BFMTV) October 11, 2020
“Why is France the only country to suffer so much urban violence?
“, For his part tweeted Rachida Dati.
In question, according to the LR mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris, the “impunity of minors” and “police officers not supported by their hierarchy who constantly fear being implicated for use of force”.
Why is France the only country to suffer so much urban violence?
1 / an impunity for minors worsened under Holland 2 / police officers not supported by their hierarchy who constantly fear being questioned for the use of force #Champigny pic.twitter.com/14QjSSnmUP
- Rachida Dati ن (@datirachida) October 11, 2020
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"The civil war is already there we are still making comments ..." wrote the deputy RN Gilbert Collard on Twitter.
"We need extremely harsh sentences when the police are attacked," demanded LCI Thierry Mariani, also an RN deputy.
The #guerrecivile is already there and we are still making comments ... # Police #champignysurmarne pic.twitter.com/dwFtjr5oAw
- Gilbert Collard (@GilbertCollard) October 11, 2020
🎥 #ChampignySurMarne “We need extremely harsh sentences when the police are attacked.
We also know that some of these thugs are not French, so they have nothing to do in France!
»Clash on the set @LCI ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/KlOH8cWDiQ
- Thierry MARIANI (@ThierryMARIANI) October 11, 2020
The deputy of Essonne Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, president of Debout la France, brought his “total support to the police officers targeted last night”, calling for “urgently” to find the perpetrators and to “condemn them”.
Full support for the police officers targeted last night by mortar fire in their #Champigny police station.
We cannot accept that scum attack our police with impunity, we must urgently find them and condemn them!
https://t.co/zsx3f3EqgC
- N. Dupont-Aignan (@dupontaignan) October 11, 2020
"We ask for a clear, strong and courageous response from the State and not tweets of indignation", for her part ridiculed Agnès Evren, MEP, councilor for Paris and president of the LR federation in Paris.
We ask for a clear, strong and courageous response from the State and not tweets of indignation after these new images filmed and claimed of the attack on the police station of Champigny-sur-Marne.
All my support for the police https://t.co/dRPXxFVaVs
- Agnes Evren (@AgnesEvren) October 11, 2020
This police station has already been targeted several times by this type of attack, especially last April during confinement or even in 2018.
It is a "hectic" district, "with a peripheral road around, a single entrance and a single exit" so it is "complicated" for the police, explains François Cocq, former deputy mayor of this town. formerly communist and teacher in a college near the district.
Request for a second police station
He regrets that there is only "one police station for a town of 76,000 inhabitants".
The fact that it is installed in the heart of this district where there is drug trafficking, "that does not solve anything", still assures François Cocq to AFP.
As soon as there is tension with the police, "people come to settle their accounts directly, they find the police at their doorstep", so most often with fireworks.
Christian Favier, president of the PCF departmental council of Val-de-Marne, provided in a press release his “support for the police officers and the strongly marked residents of the district”.
He recalls that "since the month of July and the arson of the Daniel-Fery gymnasium, Champigny has experienced several other particularly worrying events".
Christian Favier has been pleading for several months, like the “hundreds of residents who have mobilized through a petition”, for “new police forces as well as the creation of a second national police station in the city”.