Confronted for a week with the anger of the police, Christophe Castaner said on Tuesday that it was "essential for (him) to be the first defender" of the police "against all those who soiled them by accusing them to be militias, barbarians "and demanded that they be" disarmed ".
The Minister of the Interior said he was "proud" of the police in the National Assembly, where he was subjected to questions from several deputies. "Our security forces do exceptional work in difficult conditions, face threats, repression," he said.
No "letting go"
On several occasions, he vigorously supported the police and the gendarmerie, a way for him to respond to those who accused him of "dropping" the police when he announced the ban on '' an arrest technique, the key to choking, and 'zero tolerance' for acts of racism by the police.
"Neither cowardice, nor never lack of courage either," insisted the minister, arguing that the police were "the guardians of the Republic" and that he could count on them to carry "the requirement of ethics, morals and responsibility ”.
"The throttling key, a dangerous move"
At the deputy LR Maxime Minot who reproached him for not defending the police, he became annoyed: “I have never stopped defending them. I do not accept the suggestion that I could have abandoned our police forces at any time, I who had been for twenty months, every day, every night by their side. ”
Christophe Castaner also went back on his requirement to fight racism in the police ranks: "There is no question of stigmatizing the national police when we fight racism within it because some individuals dirty it by their behavior " "It is because we want to defend the police that we must bear this requirement, this zero tolerance."
As for the ban on the throttle key, he repeated that it was "a dangerous gesture". The Minister of the Interior also defended his action, with a "three-year action budget of a billion additional credits for internal security" and the recruitment of "10,000 police and gendarmes", as well as the payment of overtime.
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