2023-07-20 02:07:04
For nearly two and a half hours, the Minister of the Interior responded to the deputies of the Law Commission. A hearing to take stock of the riots which affected France at the end of June, after the death of Nahel, killed by the shooting of a policeman in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine). In his introductory remarks, Gérald Darmanin recognized, as he had done previously, that “the loss of a man’s life, and particularly of a 17-year-old teenager, is always a tragedy”.
However, “nothing justifies the violence”, supports the minister. “What is the link between the death of this young man and the attack on 90 schools, 103 town halls, 180 police stations, gendarmerie barracks, fire brigades? What is the link between the death of a young man and the extremely strong, sometimes very serious, threats and physical attacks that affected 27 elected officials? “he asks in front of the parliamentarians.
At the heart of the discussion in particular, the Cazeneuve law adopted in February 2017, which relaxes the conditions for the use of firearms by the police when they refuse to comply and is criticized by the left, the rebels in mind. . Gérald Darmanin does not object to an evaluation. This is also planned for the start of the parliamentary term, announced Sacha Houlié, president of the Law Commission. On the other hand, the minister refuses to consider this law as “a license to kill”. “The 2017 law did not encourage the police and gendarmes to shoot more,” he says. On a modification of the text, however, he is perplexed. “When someone breaks the law, what’s the point of changing it? he asked. On the other hand, the Beauvau tenant said he was “very favorable” to the generalization of on-board cameras for the police, gendarmes and firefighters.
On several occasions, the strategy of La France Insoumise, which refused to call for calm, was pointed out by the deputies of the majority, the right and the extreme right. Thomas Rudigoz, of the Renaissance party, thus criticized “political leaders of LFI” who have “ceased to throw oil on the fire”.
“Delinquency is not just a name”
Another pass of arms took place between the Minister of the Interior and the deputy Yoann Gillet (National Rally). The latter asked him for “total transparency”, considering it impossible to solve the problem “as long as you try to make people believe that the rioters are called Mattéo and Kévin, as long as you ignore the consequences of mass immigration which the French no longer want”. To which Gérald Darmanin replied that it “would be wrong to say that 100% of the rioters were foreigners or of foreign origin”. And to remember that 10% of those arrested were not of French nationality. “A Frenchman is a Frenchman. Delinquency is not just a first name,” concluded the minister.
The hearing also allowed the first cop in France to shell out possible answers by way of lessons. On the video surveillance systems, Gérald Darmanin considered them “effective”, taking as proof that the first thing done “by the rioters was to break these cameras”.
On the subject of social networks, whose role in the riots has been castigated by the government, the minister considered that classic telephone tapping “does not bring much anymore”. “I am obviously in favor of having the law assessed, under the conditions of supervision and respect for private freedom”, he declared.
Finally, on the ban on artificial mortars, used by many rioters in the face of the police, the Minister says he wants to draw inspiration from the regulations applied to certain pharmaceutical products, and which allow “monitoring of production at the destruction” Gérald Darmanin also announced that he wanted to lead an “initiative” with his “European colleagues”. “It should have been Thursday, but you saw it, I’m not sure I’ll still be Minister of the Interior on Thursday,” smiled the Beauvau tenant, in an allusion to the upcoming reshuffle.
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