2023-12-05 10:32:51
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, at the Sorbonne, in Paris, October 26, 2023. JULIEN MUGUET FOR “LE MONDE”
Not once has Emmanuel Macron’s name been mentioned. Monday, December 4, when Jordan Bardella invites the press to address one of the favorite themes of the far right – Islamist terrorism and the response, in his eyes, ineffective from those in power –, the president of the National Rally (RN) does not attack, or no longer, the supposed laxity of the Head of State, unable to run again in the 2027 presidential election due to the Constitution. Jordan Bardella has only one target: Gérald Darmanin.
Forty-eight hours after the attack on the Bir-Hakeim bridge, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, where a young man listed for Islamist radicalization and monitored for psychiatric disorders killed a German-Filipino tourist, the head of the RN list in the European elections in June denounces “the unbearable repetition of the same attacks”. Before shooting his sharpest arrow against the tenant of Place Beauvau: “Gérald Darmanin limits himself to keeping a Time.news of his own ineffectiveness. In a functional democracy, he would have already been accountable to the French people, but in Macronie, the word “responsibility” seems to have disappeared from political practices. he snaps. “Mr. Darmanin, isn’t he ashamed at the end?” (…) When we have an assessment like that, we go away and put our apron back on”he presses on Sud Radio the same day.
The day before, from Florence, in Italy, where he held a meeting alongside Matteo Salvini, leader of the League and vice-president of the Italian council, the faithful lieutenant of Marine Le Pen had nevertheless judged that the resignation of Gérald Darmanin “will not change[it] not much “.
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At the Ministry of the Interior, we welcome this status as Jordan Bardella’s best enemy. There “firmness” and the “Gérald Darmanin’s ability to reach the working classes”the electoral breeding ground of the RN, would explain, according to Place Beauvau, that the former elected representative Les Républicains (LR) is the favorite target of the far right. “At the RN, we always attack what we think is the weak link…”puts a close friend of Emmanuel Macron into perspective.
“We need answers”
Arriving at the Ministry of the Interior in 2020, Gérald Darmanin feared, in the summer of 2023, of living the year too long at Place Beauvau. Where there are only “shots to take”, he confided in private. Since the start of the school year, the minister has been working hard to counter the charges from the right and the extreme right who are quick to denounce the country’s security flaws. After the attack in Arras on October 13, where a literature professor, Dominique Bernard, died of stabbings from an Islamist terrorist from the Caucasus, known to the intelligence services, Gérald Darmanin justified the need to adopt its immigration bill, currently being examined in the National Assembly.
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