Laurent Nuñez responded this Thursday to accusations of police violence, directed for several months against the police. The Secretary of State to the Minister of the Interior refuses the term "police violence" but prefers that of "legal violence", according to BFMTV.
For him, it is necessary to "refute this term of police violence, because it suggests that there is an organized system which would like the police to be repressive in order to silence a dispute," he said. during his interview on BFMTV. "The police, of course, are not violent. State violence is violence that is legitimate, that is to say that it is very controlled. (…) This is called legal violence, ”continued the former boss of the DGSI.
"Faults" that "can happen"
Asked about the death of Cédric Chouviat from a broken larynx during an arrest, Laurent Nuñez recognizes that the answer must always be "proportionate". "When there are faults, as can happen, there is obviously most often a referral to the judicial authority or there may be administrative sanctions," he said.
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