Gérald Darmanin estimated this Thursday that “what is at stake is (was) the conception we have of the rule of law”, defending his management of maintaining order during demonstrations against the controversial pension reform or against water reservoirs.
“What is at stake are the institutions of the Republic (…). The police are the bulwark against attacks on democratic spaces,” added the Minister of the Interior, at the end of the congress of the Alianza police union, where he received a warm welcome.
Conflict issues, such as pension reform or “mega-basins”, “can be talked about, but cannot be fought,” he said.
“If we think, continued Gérald Darmanin, that it is violent force (…) that must win the causes (…), then there is no more Republic, there is no more democracy. And the law of the strongest prevails”.
“We will have to return to the anti-rompedores law”
“If the property does not deserve protection, if the symbols of the Republic do not deserve protection, if the peasants do not deserve protection for their production tools and there have been judicial sentences (…) then it is no longer worth voting in elections, making laws”.
Highly appreciative of the minister, Alianza’s general secretary, Fabien Vanhemelryck, called for a “new anti-thug law” in order to have “the legal and technical means to prevent violence during demonstrations and punish its perpetrators.”
A petition approved by the minister: “Yes, it will be necessary to return to the anti-rompedores law.”
Eager to show his support for the police, Gérald Darmanin multiplied the declarations of love and gratitude to them: “What belches me the most (sic) are the women and men who question their loyalty to the rule of law, to the Republic, to the law”. “I love the National Police, because I love the Republic,” he added to loud applause.
La Nupes, an “anti-police party”
While the investigators of the judicial police strongly oppose his reform of the PJ, the minister highlighted the hard work of the departmental security police – “they are the ones who suffer the most” – who deal with cases of so-called low-end delinquency. . A way to open a gap between the PJ police and the security ones.
Along the same lines as the minister in recent days, Fabien Vanhemelryck has mocked the Nupes, “a melting pot of political parties hot on the heels of rebellious France, an anti-police, republican party of variable geometry, which defends everything that today we hate.” “.
He welcomed the formation of a “majority bloc” made up of 13 police union organizations, in his opinion, the “antithesis” of Nupes.
Source: BFM TV
