2024-10-14 03:24:00
Returning from his stronghold of Tourcoing (North), Gérald Darmanin, this Monday 30 September, still has a heart full of bitterness. The former Interior Minister has just handed over his government post to the far-right senator from Vendée Bruno Retailleau. But the former republican (LR), a hated figure of the left, jokes about it with the microphone off on the set of France Inter where he is a guest on the morning show. “Did you see? Now I’m on the left! »smiles. In a few days the excesses and provocations of the former “Sarko Boy” who judged the leader of the National Rally (RN), Marine Le Pen, “a little soft” and complained “wild” of the country, seem very shy in view of the media appearances of the new tenant of Place Beauvau.
The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, at the Elysée, in Paris, on 23 September 2024.
Since his appointment, the former president of the LR group in the Senate has occupied spaces and minds. Not a day goes by without a major interview, a shocking announcement, and a controversial statement. France is experiencing its “Retaileau moment”. Full-rimmed glasses, serious face and slim appearance, says the Vendée MP-elect here’s that “Immigration is not an opportunity” (on LCI, September 29), where “The rule of law is neither immaterial nor sacred” (au Sunday newspaper of September 29th).
The first French policeman, the 63-year-old previously little known to the general public, occupies the front pages of ParisianFrom Point Pleases Figaro magazine (of 4 October), where he said he was in favor “presumption of innocence for the police » and promises the transformation of state medical assistance, a basket of care for undocumented foreigners, into emergency medical assistance. To justify, with his words, his “bright line” on immigration, inspired by the method of post-fascist leader Giorgia Meloni in Italy, and applauded by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The minister, a conservative Catholic, claims to know this “what the French want” and puts aside all the criticisms that paint him as an apostle of old France. “It’s my style”decides to enter The Parisian from October 10th.
“He has backbone”
Since Matignon, where the order was given not to pay” in the fight », the multiple interviews with the Minister of the Interior are duly reread. And approved. “The Prime Minister and Bruno Retailleau are philosophically aligned”we swear at Place Beauvau. Of course, Michel Barnier distances himself from his minister’s attacks against the rule of law, but he unflinchingly espouses the “Retailleau line” during the political broadcast “L’Evénement” on France 2 on 3 October.
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