The Alliance police union will again file a complaint against Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Le Parisien learned on Monday, confirming information from BFMTV.
In question, a tweet from the leader of France Insoumise published last night. “The police are killing and the factional group Alliance justifies the shootings and the death for “refusal to comply”. Shame is when? “, he wrote on Twitter.
This tweet from Jean-Luc Mélenchon comes the day after the death of a passenger in a car, who had been injured by police fire on Saturday in the 18th arrondissement of Paris.
Police officers taken into custody
She was in a car suspected of having run into officials during a check, provoking the shooting of three police officers. The latter were placed in police custody on Sunday at the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) for “violence with a weapon by a person holding public authority”. The shots hit the driver in the chest and his front passenger in the head, causing his death. In all, nine cartridges would have been fired.
“This measure is taken because of the seriousness of the consequences of the shootings carried out and in order to verify the conditions of use of the weapons”, explained Sunday to the Parisian the parquet floor of Paris, about the placement in custody of the three police officers .
For his part, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin reacted, declaring that the police and gendarmes ” [faisaient] courageous, difficult work and [risquaient] their life at every moment. “Let the investigations be done without using them as hostages of an electoral campaign,” he added. National Rally spokesperson Laurent Jacobelli told him that Jean-Luc Mélenchon ” [vendait] his soul for a few voices”.
Last May, Alliance had already announced that it was filing a complaint for defamation that it had already been qualified at the time by Jean-Luc Mélenchon as a “factious union” which “claims to be able to shoot people”.
In the morning, Manuel Bompard, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s campaign manager for the presidential election, and who is running for his constituency in the Bouches-du-Rhône in the legislative elections, had tried to ensure that it was not a question of a general remark on the police and called for “a debate without being in the caricature”. “We are not anti-police or anti-cops, (…) we must be able to have a somewhat serious debate on the subject”, he continued on Sud Radio. But he seemed to contradict himself a bit later. On Twitter, Bompard reacted to the words of Christophe Castaner who denounced the Nupes program by affirming, on France 2, that “Jean-Luc Mélenchon offers us a Soviet regulation where everything is prohibited or organized. We will no longer even be able to cut our wood on our own property”. “You misread our program. What we are proposing is that it is forbidden to cut off hands in a demonstration, ”retorted the Insoumis.
For its part, the SCSI, a union of police officers and commissioners, called on the Ministry of the Interior to launch a study to find out “why France is more affected” than other countries by the “scourge” of the refusal to comply.