"Yellow Vests": "We will be without mercy with the thugs", says Nicole Belloubet

On the sidelines of the commemoration of the attacks in Trèbes, the Minister of Justice sent a message of firmness towards the thugs in front of the police.

Minister of Justice Nicole Belloubet promised Saturday to be "merciless with the thugs" in act 19 yellow vests, in a speech on the sidelines of the commemoration of the jihadist attacks that killed four in the Aude March 23, 2018.

"Their only claim is violence." The Guard of the Seals launched this warning by evoking in front of officials and representatives of the forces of the order assembled in the barracks Jena of Carcassonne "the disturbances which shake the country since November". "When breakers attack you, you attack, France is with you," she said to the address including police, gendarmes and CRS deployed in the courtyard of the barracks. "We will be merciless to the thugs (....) What these people want is not dialogue, their only claim is violence," she added. "Peaceful protesters need to distance themselves" from these troublemakers, she also advocated.

Interview with the Beltrame family. The minister was to be joined at the end of the morning in Trèbes, the second stage of the tribute to the victims of the attacks, by Prime Minister Edouard Philippe. Before handing over the Homeland Security Medal to some 30 police officers, police officers, firefighters and association volunteers, she met in the morning the family of Lieutenant-Colonel Gendarmerie Arnaud Beltrame, killed by the assailant, Radouane Lakdim, who had been fighting against the release of a hostage.

On March 23, 2018, Radouane Lakdim, 25, began his murderous journey by stealing a car in Carcassonne from which he shot the passenger and wounded the driver with a bullet. He then fired at CRS returning from a jog, injuring one, before entering a Super U supermarket in Trèbes where he had killed a butcher, and a customer, and then mortally wounded Arnaud Beltrame. The author of these attacks, claimed by the group Islamic State (IS), was then shot in the assault given by gendarmes of the antenna GIGN Toulouse.