Referring to a “lack of structural means for more than thirty years”, a lack of “reforms”, “programming”, but also “changes in delinquency and crime”, the Minister of the Interior urged the deputies to vote on this orientation law. and programming (Lopmi), which has an additional 15,000 million euros earmarked in five years.
Outlining for half an hour the main “jobs” that he says his services await – lack of personnel, cyber threats, training needs for law enforcement – the minister listed the main measures of the text.
modernize the police
Among these, 8,500 police and gendarmerie positions created, seizure of digital assets, expansion of the scope of crimes that can be subject to fixed fines, or even the digital modernization of services.
On the question of maintaining order, Gérald Darmanin spoke of a “structural error”, in response to the “demonstrations that we experienced in the years 2018, 2019 and sometimes in 2020”.
“We put police and gendarmes who were not trained, who were not prepared for public order,” lamented the minister, arguing a “lack of means, since there were 15 casualties of mobile gendarmerie and CRS squads (in) 20 years.”
The tenant of the Beauvau square also pointed to his “lack of training because nobody had seen the yellow vests coming, in any case their multiplication and repetition.”
Looking towards the LR deputies
He highlighted the creation provided for by the text of “11 units of mobile forces” to “repair this error.”
While noting that the Senate had supported him with the “virtual unanimity” of its members (307 votes against 27, including the Socialist senators), Gérald Darmanin called on the deputies to vote on “a very important text for the safety of our comrades citizens”.
To do this, the executive has the voices of the right. On the left, La France insoumise, the ecologists and the communists should, except for surprise, vote overwhelmingly against the text, the socialists reserving their position according to the progress during the review in session.
Debates should last all week, with over a thousand amendments to consider.
Source: BFM TV
