He says he always wants to defend the honor of the national police.
Gérald Darmanin filed a complaint Wednesday for "public defamation of the national police" after the publication on a blog hosted by Mediapart of a text accusing the police of "barbarism" for having "executed" the murderer of Samuel Paty.
In his letter to the public prosecutor of Paris that he posted on his Twitter account, the Minister of the Interior referred to the blog “Hors les murs” published on October 19 on the blog-mediapart.fr site.
I will always defend the honor of the National Police.
I file a complaint against the Mediapart blog for public defamation.
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- Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) October 21, 2020
The article referred by the Minister entitled "Summary execution of suspect: new standard in terrorism?"
»Commented an amateur video shot when the police fired on the young refugee of Chechen Russian origin after he had just beheaded Samuel Paty.
“This 18-year-old is at the precise moment of his death only a suspect armed with a toy and a knife.
To applaud a police force which kills in such a summary and systematic way individuals suspected of terrorism is to applaud barbarism […], it is to ignite the clash of civilizations which is […] at the top of the agenda of all extreme rights of the world ”, writes in particular the author, anonymous, of this blog.
"Police barbarism"
"By these words, the police and the entire national police are accused of
police barbarism,
" said Gerald Darmanin in particular in his letter to argue his complaint.
Contacted, the publication director of Mediapart Edwy Plenel did not wish to react immediately.
On Twitter, journalist Fabrice Arfi reacted to the announcement of this complaint, believing that it was "perhaps time to question the action of a Minister of the Interior who after the beheading of a teacher attacks a newspaper subscriber's blog post ”.
It may be time to wonder about the action of a Minister of the Interior who after the beheading of a professor attacks the blog post of a newspaper subscriber - nothing to do with the editorial staff of Mediapart, nothing - and halal and kosher convenience stores.
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- Fabrice Arfi (@fabricearfi) October 21, 2020
