Gérald Darmanin, November 20, 2020 at the National Assembly.
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AFP
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin will be heard on Monday by the Laws Commission of the National Assembly, after the violence that has marred the action of the police for ten days, its president announced Thursday.
The hearing should allow "to question the minister on the conditions under which the police have used force during various events in Paris since the demonstration of November 17, 2020", added Yaël Braun-Pivet .
Videos of violence posted on social networks
On November 17, violence took place during the demonstration against the proposed law on "comprehensive security" near the National Assembly.
On Monday, migrants gathered at Place de la République in Paris by an association, were taken out of their tents by force, with batons.
A police officer was seen tripping one of the evacuees.
On Wednesday, the beating of a producer by three police officers was widely relayed on social networks.
This hearing, which will take place Monday at 6.15 pm, "is part of the mission of monitoring government action by Parliament," said the MP for Yvelines.
"It will also relate to the control of the action of the internal security forces, the efficiency of the inspection bodies as well as the improvements envisaged in this area", added the president of the Law commission.
Arrived in July Place Beauvau, Gérald Darmanin is under fire from critics after a succession of mistakes of which the police are accused, against the backdrop of controversies around article 24 of the bill "comprehensive security" which provides to penalize the malicious dissemination of the image of police and gendarmes.
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