2023-07-04 21:24:58
Mathilde Panot (LFI) during the session of Questions to the government, at the national assembly, on July 4, 2023. JULIEN MUGUET FOR “THE WORLD”
A week after the death of Nahel M. in Nanterre, killed by a police officer following a refusal to comply, the subject of urban riots largely dominated, on Tuesday July 4, questions to the government in the National Assembly. During an electric session, where 26 of the 28 speeches by deputies concerned the events of the past six days, each intervention crystallized the urgency to provide political answers in the face of this new conflagration in the suburbs.
When the New Popular, Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) multiplied the speeches to denounce the “police brutality” recalling the various deaths that have occurred in recent years during interventions by the police, the National Rally (RN) or even Les Républicains (LR) have insisted on the issue of repression in the face of “rioters moved by hatred of France”, in the words of the president of the LR group, Olivier Marleix. Challenged by almost all of the group presidents, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, for her part reiterated “the goal” in the short term of the executive of “guarantee the republican order”.
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“We are on the right track but we remain extremely vigilant and it is gradually, with the greatest caution, that we will adapt our security system”, she assured, while urban violence has been relatively calm since Saturday. The Prime Minister also sought to temporize the structural measures that could be taken by the government to respond to this crisis, sticking to the “four pillars ” of the executive’s response: a ” mobilization of law enforcement with 45,000 police and gendarmes on the ground”, “the firmness of the criminal response”the “social media empowerment” and one “necessary reminder of parental responsibility”minors being overrepresented among the rioters arrested. “We must be strong against the law-breaking police, and very tough against the criminals who attack them”affirmed for his part the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.
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LFI heckled and even booed
The more decided positions of the executive have been reserved for the deputies of La France insoumise (LFI), accused for several days of having fueled tensions by refusing to“call for calm” at the height of the crisis. “There will be no return to calm if there is no justice”, reiterated, Tuesday morning, the president of the group rebellious, Mathilde Panot, before questioning Ms. Borne a few hours later in the Hemicycle. “You want to blame us for the anger when it takes root in a heinous murder”said the elected representative of Val-de-Marne, believing that “The return to calm cannot be decreed. It builds itself. »
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