Still as incisive. Green MP Sandrine Rousseau on Monday accused President Emmanuel Macron and Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin of “going after the incident” by deploying “a debauchery of means” to counter the violence in the demonstrations, which she has also condemned. “I condemn all violence but there is a responsibility in maintaining order (…), there is a responsibility of political power”, estimated the deputy on Public Senate, two days after the very violent clashes which opposed demonstrators and police in Sainte-Soline in Deux-Sèvres. A protester was between life and death on Sunday.
“It’s not the same to give orders to throw up to 4,000 grenades (…) and the responsibility of the demonstrators who were there to defend the common good”, water, continued Ms. Rousseau, for whom “he there were violent individuals, it is undeniable”.
A policy of “intimidation”
“It is a debauchery of means, (…) a policy of intimidation and I wonder to what extent there is not on the part of Gérald Darmanin and Emmanuel Macron the will to seek the ‘incident “. She pointed “for some time”, a “change in the policy of maintaining order in the demonstrations and which is much harsher and more violent than it was before”, in reference also to the incidents which have enamelled the latest anti-retirement rallies.
According to her, Germany and England, where there were very violent hooligans, have changed their policing policies “and today the demonstrations are going well”. Sandrine Rousseau called on the Minister of the Interior to denounce “the violence of his police forces rather than saying that it is the fatigue of isolated individuals “, and to dissolve the Brav-M, the unit of police officers circulating on motorcycles to ensure the maintenance of order, implicated in this violence.