The French Government has announced this Wednesday an exceptional mobilization of 45,000 police officers for July 13 and 14 due to the risk of disorders and protests during the celebrations of the national holiday.
This device will be similar to the one installed during the urban riots that recently shook the country, and will be made up of elite units of the police and the national guard (“gendarmerie”), supported by armored vehicles, explained the French Interior Minister, Gerald Darmanin.
The measures could last until next Saturday night, which implies a total mobilization of 130,000 police officers and national guards over the three days.
Darmanin also announced the mobilization of thousands of firefighters, and considered that these measures are intended to prevent a resurgence of “extreme violence” that has been shaking France for a week after the death of a teenager at the hands of the police on June 27.
Previously, an official source had indicated that the French president, Emmanuel Macron, had decided to give up the traditional speech on the national holiday of July 14, a date he had set to take stock of the “100 days of appeasement” of the registered tensions. in the country.
The French head of state had made this call for appeasement in mid-April.
At that time, the country was coming out of several months of social tensions caused by Macron’s pension reform, and the head of state then set the date, coinciding with French National Day, which is celebrated annually and goes back to the date of the seizure of power. Bastille (July 14, 1789) -, for a “first evaluation” of the great projects that must be undertaken to close this chapter.
This Wednesday, the office of the French Presidency announced that Macron will not speak on July 14 and that he will do so “in the coming days”, without giving a date.
Source: TSF
