The response was quick. Less than 48 hours after a knife attack near the Eiffel Tower that left one dead and two injured, Gérald Darmanin criticized Jordan Bardella for “using this drama for her campaign” for the European elections on BFMTV.
“Mr. Darmanin, are you not ashamed in the end? It is he who is in power, it is he who is responsible for the safety of the French. I am a little fed up with nobody being responsible for anything”, responded the president of the National Assembly on Sud Radio this Monday morning.
“It’s never your fault.”
On Saturday night, the attacker Armand R. killed a 23-year-old German-Filipino tourist with a knife and hammer and slightly injured two other men in the 15th and 16th arrondissements of Paris.
This person classified as S was arrested immediately after the events and has since been in police custody at the facilities of the anti-terrorist section (SAT) of the Paris criminal brigade.
“We have this security reality, but for the Minister of the Interior it is never his fault. We have foreigners radicalized under the influence of the OQTF who remain on French soil, but it is not his fault,” MEP RN criticized again.
“I should have resigned a long time ago”
Jordan Bardella refers to the murder of Professor Dominique Bernard, murdered in Arras on October 13. The alleged perpetrator of the attack, 20 years old, had been in an irregular situation since he came of age. His family was subject to the obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) when he was a minor and was ultimately not expelled.
“We have people who roam freely from one country to another, who are followed by the intelligence services, who comment on crimes and misdemeanors. It is not their fault either,” adds this time the leader of the movement led for a long time by Marine Le Pen. referring to the attacker in Annecy in June.
“When we receive a rating like that, we leave”
Enough to lead Jordan Bardella to judge that Gérald Darmanin “should have resigned a long time ago.”
“When we have an assessment like that, we leave and put our apron back on,” the MEP remains upset.
For the moment, Gérald Darmanin denies any failure in the judicial follow-up of the attacker of the Paris attack. The Minister of the Interior spoke of “a failure” in the individual’s psychiatric follow-up.
This French-Iranian was subject to a reception order that involved strict psychiatric monitoring and controlled by a coordinating doctor” until the end of his conditional release, on April 26, 2023, after a new psychiatric evaluation.
The police services had tried in October to have him examined by a doctor and automatically hospitalized, following “the evolution of certain psychiatric disorders already observed during his detention,” according to anti-terrorist prosecutor Jean-François Ricard.
Due to the lack of an obvious psychiatric disorder, the doctor refused to hospitalize him.
Source: BFM TV
