During questions to the government this Tuesday afternoon in the National Assembly, Gérald Darmanin strongly responded to the deputy Générations Sophie Taillé-Polian on the issue of “police violence”.
The interior minister initially refused to be called “France’s first policeman” because he did not have “the courage to put himself in the shoes of policemen who risk their lives every day for that of all their fellow citizens.”
Gérald Darmanin then launched into an anaphoric tirade, consisting of seven questions beginning with: “what happened to the left.”
“What happened on the left that we confused thugs and policemen? What happened on the left that we didn’t have a word to think about these policemen and gendarmes who are wounded?” he lamented.
Lack of support for law enforcement
While several offices of deputies have been demoted in recent weeks or even a door of the Bordeaux town hall was set on fire on Thursday on the sidelines of the demonstrations against the pension reform, Gérald Darmanin was outraged because the Nupes did not have “a word to condemn these “attacks”.
He also regretted that the difference between “prohibited demonstrations” and “authorized demonstrations” was not made, in reference to the spontaneous nocturnal concentrations after the use of 49.3 by the government or the incidents during the mobilization against the mega-basins of Sainte-Soline (Deux -Sèvres).
“What happened on the left that we no longer respect the uniform of the Republic? (…) What happened on the left that we hate the police? ”, He still declared in the chamber.
Mélenchon “shames left-wing voters”
The Minister of the Interior ended his tirade by citing figures from the left, former Ministers of the Interior, such as Bernard Cazeneuve or Manuel Valls.
Finally, he directly targeted the former candidate of La France insoumise for the presidential elections Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Other parties on the left should not support someone who “spews” on law enforcement and “shams all left-wing voters,” he said.
Source: BFM TV
