2023-06-27 23:40:35
This is not the first time that he wants to change everything in the police. The police “must be completely overhauled”, said the leader of La France insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Tuesday after the death of a 17-year-old motorist, killed by a police officer in Nanterre after a refusal to comply.
“The death penalty no longer exists in France. No policeman has the right to kill except in self-defense,” the former presidential candidate said on Twitter. According to him “this uncontrolled police force discredits the authority of the State. It needs to be completely overhauled.”
The death penalty no longer exists in France. No policeman has the right to kill except in self-defense. If it was a refusal to comply by polluters or tax emigrants, we would not ask the question. We have multiplied the alerts. This uncontrolled police by the…
— Jean-Luc Melenchon (@JLMelenchon) June 27, 2023
“We have multiplied the alerts”, added Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who had been criticized in 2022 for having tweeted, during the legislative campaign of 2022, that “the police kill”. “If it was a refusal to comply by polluters or tax emigrants, we would not ask the question,” he said, presenting his “deep condolences” to the family. During the 2020 presidential campaign, he proposed to renovate the national police “from the cellar to the attic”.
Gérald Darmanin calls for respect for “mourning and the presumption of innocence”
Earlier this Tuesday, EELV MP Sandrine Rousseau also shared the video of the shooting accompanied by the message: “A refusal to comply cannot be a death sentence. For no one. Never. At the National Assembly, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, asked for “respect for the bereavement of families, but [aussi] the presumption of innocence of police officers.
A police officer suspected of having killed the young motorist on Tuesday morning was taken into custody for intentional homicide, the prosecution said in the evening. A video circulating on Twitterauthenticated by AFP, shows two police officers controlling a yellow car.
One of them, standing, takes aim at the driver with his pistol, and shoots at point-blank range when the driver drives off. The car ended its race a few tens of meters further, embedded in a post. The victim, Nahel M., 17, died shortly after despite the intervention of the Samu.
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