Beauveau place is attacking fireworks. Bruno Retailleau, the Interior Minister, presented this Thursday, July 24, from a police station in the 20th Paris District, the three main lines to combat artificial fires.
The ads, which were in parallel with a presentation of medals to a police officer, with precision injured by one of these explosions on the night of strong violence out of the coronation of the PSG in the Champions League.
“Here we have France that is involved against France that takes place. The France of the heroes against the France of the bastards,” punished the Interior Minister, before deplore “a uninhibited and disinhibited youth.”
Bruno Retailleau mentioned the measures he wishes to establish to fight fireworks, described as “predilection weapons of these barbarians” aimed at the police or firefighters, animated “by an anti-flict and anti-state hatred.”
• Strengthen controls
First point mentioned by the Minister, the development of controls “everywhere in France” to identify these artificial fires upstream. The minister was accompanied precisely by the Prefect of the Police of Paris, Laurent Núñez, a few days after the main controls in the Paris region around July 14 against these explosive devices easily found in commerce.
From 2022 to 2024, the use of these weapons “jumped 150%” according to Bruno Retailleau, who now expects to “press the emails of the network.”
Recent controls carried out in France allowed the entry “of 11,068” machines and the arrest of 170 people.
• Heaviness sanctions
Another objective led by the tenant of the Beauvau place, “strengthen” the sanctions in France. “Today the penalties are not heavy, deterrence,” said Bruno Retailleau.
Therefore, at the beginning of the school year, the latter will propose a law aimed at punishing the sale of the most dangerous mortars for non -year -year professionals in prison and three if the buyer is a minor. The text would also punish three to five years in prison to the holders of fireworks if their purchase were from the beginning “the destruction of the property of others” or “the attack on human lives”.
Bruno Retailleau also wants to strengthen the Pharos platform to more easily close the sites that these fireworks sell online.
• Strengthen European cooperation
Last point raised, the “need” to strengthen the cooperation of all European countries in this area.
“These weapons do not fall from heaven, but they often come from China and pass through several European countries such as Poland and the Czech Republic,” he quotes the minister.
During a recent meeting with its European counterparts, Bruno Retailleau “raised in the table” several measures, such as harmonization throughout the old continent of the categorization of fireworks and, therefore, improve their traceability.
You also want to strengthen controls everywhere and propose to prohibit the most dangerous devices “very firmly” the current European directive in force on the subject.
Source: BFM TV
