- “I cannot explain to my children whether it is normal or not to throw stones at the police. "
- Several police unions denounced, on Twitter, this quote from Sibeth Ndiaye, about the noticed arrest of a nurse who targeted CRS with these projectiles.
- If the spokesperson for the government said this sentence correctly, it was taken out of context since Sibeth Ndiaye also condemned this type of behavior towards the police.
"Throwing stones at the police, is this normal? The government spokesperson is not sure ... Yet another incongruity and a lack of firm support vis-à-vis the police "," These comments, made by […] Sibeth Ndiaye, are unworthy of his duties… ”On Twitter, a statement by the government spokesperson sparked an anthology of indignant reactions among various police unions.
The latter reproached him for having declared, in response to a question about the controversial arrest of a nurse who threw projectiles at the police during the demonstration on June 16 in Paris: "I cannot explain to my children whether it is normal or not to throw stones at the police. "
"I cannot explain to my children whether or not it is normal to throw stones at the police."
These remarks, made by the spokesperson of the gvt @SibethNdiaye, are unworthy of his functions. #JeSoutiensLaPolice #SoutienAuxFDO #BlueLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/8TpqRRoNoS
If the quote was indeed pronounced by Sibeth Ndiaye during his passage in the program Dimanche en politique on France 3, Sunday June 21, this extract however obscures the other remarks made by the spokesperson of the government on this occasion, which condemned throwing stones at the police.
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The replay of the show shows, just like an extract published on Twitter, the sequence took place at the start of the show (from 4'29 on the replay) presented by Francis Letellier.
🏥 For @SibethNdiaye, "justice must be exercised in a normal manner", therefore without particular leniency against #Farida, the nurse arrested Tuesday, June 16, in Paris, during the #manifestation of #careers. ⤵️
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Sibeth Ndiaye is asked the following question by journalist Francis Letellier: "First, this nurse who was muscled by several CRS after throwing stones at the police, she will be tried in September, she says she 'cracked'. Should justice be ruthless? "
The government spokesperson begins to respond by emphasizing that this gesture must not be "absolved": "I believe that justice must be exercised in the normal way, as for any citizen. When I do not know how to explain that stones are thrown at the police, I do not see how it should be absolved. "
Relaunched about the absence of "particular leniency" which she would show vis-à-vis the nurse, she said for the first time that justice must decide. Another response from Sibeth Ndiaye follows, in which she claims that she is not competent to determine which court decision should be taken. Then the quote relayed since by the police unions: "I obviously understand the emotion aroused by the image we saw of his arrest but at the same time I could not explain today to my children for example is it normal or not to throw stones at the police. "
“What would we say to the son or daughter of the CRS who receives this stone in the face? "
When Francis Letellier intervenes to emphasize that she was an "adult", in the situation in question, the government spokesperson once again condemns the attack on the CRS: "Of course, but at some point we must also be able to consider that justice is the same for all. There may be extenuating circumstances, it is not for me to say, it is up to the judge to do so. We can all be led in particular circumstances to be at the end of our nerves: does that justify throwing stones at the police? What would we say to the son or daughter of CRS who receives this stone in the face? "It is not serious" ? No, we can't say. So justice must be done in complete independence and we will see what the judges will have to say about that. "
The cabinet of the government spokesperson specifies at 20 Minutes : "The remarks relayed by the unions are about cut, those that were made by Sibeth Ndiaye in the show are clear and unambiguous vis-à-vis the forces of the order, like justice, which must do its work concerning the nurse, as she underlined ”.
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