2023-11-28 10:46:05
The Minister of the Interior raises his voice. Guest of France Inter this Tuesday morning, Gérald Darmanin announced that he was going to “propose the end of a small group called La division Martel and two others directly linked to far-right mobilizations”.
“I will not let any militia make the law in place of the public prosecutors and the police,” he justified, estimating that the death of young Thomas, killed after a ball in the town of Crépol (Drôme) a little over a week ago should “not allow anyone else to stand up in the name of the State to do justice”.
An “Irish scenario” avoided
“There is a mobilization among the ultra-right that wants to push us into civil war,” he feared, also ensuring that he had been “extremely firm with the police and gendarmes so that they can question” the activists participating in the violent actions carried out in recent days in reaction to the death of Thomas.
“France has thus avoided an Irish scenario, a scenario of a small civil war,” welcomed the Minister of the Interior, referring to the riots which broke out in the Anglo-Saxon country after a knife attack at Dublin. “We absolutely must condemn” the “reactions of far-right militias,” he insisted on France Inter.
The tenant of Place Beauvau also criticized the reaction of Éric Zemmour, who, like a good part of the far-right political class, has commented on Thomas’ death on numerous occasions by associating insecurity and immigration. He even published the identities of the alleged attackers on social networks, believing that Gérald Darmanin had wanted to “hide the names” of the young accused.
“I took Mr. Zemmour’s comments as a personal racist insult against me,” reacted the Minister of the Interior, believing that it was not up to him to “give the first names, last names, addresses” of the accused. “What interests me is not the person’s first name but whether they have committed a criminal act. In France, we do not judge people for what they are, but for what they do,” he concluded on the radio.
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