Should the Municipal Police dispensed and dismantle video surveillance? Mathilde Panot, the leader of France Rebelde in the National Assembly, is favorable to this idea. In BFMTV this Sunday, July 6, the deputy explained that “the Municipal Police did not need to be armed” and shared his desire to see municipal police officers to be unarmed and “reintegrated into the National Police” for the benefit of a “Local Police.” The elected official said “not favorable” to the installation of video surveillance cameras that “have never demonstrated its usefulness,” according to her.
A position disapproved by most French. According to a new “Live Opinion” survey, Elabe Institute for BFMTV and published on Thursday, July 10, two thirds of those questioned are “favorable to the Municipal Police armament.” Even in the Mathilde Panot camp, 62% of the supporters of the France rebel are favorable for the municipal police weapons.
French ready to “reduce” their freedoms to “protect better”
Regarding the protection of the video in the public space, 71% of the French are favorable, a figure that falls 57% among LFI supporters. The interviewees choose security. According to the Elabe survey, 82% of the French believe that “sometimes we must accept reducing our freedoms, because it allows us to protect ourselves better.” On the contrary, 18% judge that “nothing is more important than individual freedoms.”
This election of security for the benefit of individual freedoms is particularly notable by the right and the extreme right of the political spectrum. 93% of Republican voters make this decision, 91% in the whole and 87% in the national rally. On the side of the rebel of France, 69% of its voters favor security to individual freedoms.
To deal with insecurity, the opinion of the French is “politically divided,” according to this Elabe survey. 42% of those questioned “believe that repression must be reinforced” through Additional prison places, for example. LR voters are particularly shared on the subject (55% favorable to the greatest repression).
On the contrary, 27% of the French “think that it is necessary above all to strengthen prevention”, an opinion that brings together 54% of the voters of the new popular front. Finally, 31% of those questioned believe “that it is necessary to give so much importance” to the repression of prevention.
A bill will be presented in September to grant more powers for the Municipal Police. The text plans to increase the administrative and judicial prerogatives of these 28,000 agents that remain in the territory. With ParisianThe delegated minister to the Interior Minister responsible for the security of the newspaper François-NOël buffet justifies this reform for the “new realities of insecurity.”
Sample of 1,001 people, representative of residents of continental France of 18 years or more. The representativeness of the sample was ensured according to the quota method applied to the following variables: sex, age and profession of the interviewee after stratification by region and category of agglomeration. Internet questioning from July 8 to 9, 2025.
Source: BFM TV
