Every morning, Nicolas Beytout analyzes the political news and gives us his opinion.
This Monday, a meeting was held at the Elysee Palace concerning the comprehensive security law and in particular article 24. Emmanuel Macron was very angry with Gerald Darmanin.
After police violence against producer Michel and the demonstrations that degenerated last Saturday, Christophe Castaner was able to take revenge against his successor.
The walls shook on Monday at the Élysée.
Emmanuel Macron piqued a real anger against Gérald Darmanin and the incredible mess that became the affair of art 24. Loud voices, at the Elysee, whether those of Emmanuel Macron or of his predecessors , this is not necessarily rare.
But that the presidential anger is made public, in detail, quotes in support, it is completely new.
This shows how much the Head of State needed both to put an end to the circus around the global security law, how much he wanted to gain his image from this sorry affair and how much Gérald Darmanin lost heavy in this episode.
The anger of the President of the Republic has been described in detail.
The Head of State urgently summoned the Prime Minister, Gérald Darmanin, Roselyne Bachelot (for the relations with the world of the press) and Eric Dupond-Moretti for justice to the Elysee Palace, plus the presidents of the three majority parliamentary groups.
They all ran into the Minister of the Interior.
And it is Christophe Castaner who is responsible for letting all of the head of state's heavy reproaches know.
It is the vengeance of the former Minister of the Interior against his successor.
An operation started very early, moreover, since it is Christophe Castaner, now at the head of the group of deputies En Marche, who will provoke the first meetings and the first criticisms against article 24. In the political world of before , revenge was a dish that was eaten cold.
In the new world, it is eaten hot.
It is not just a matter of people, of resentment between the two men.
No, of course.
It matters a lot, but there is also an important political dimension.
Christophe Castaner comes from the left, Gérald Darmanin from the right.
In the delicate balance between maintaining order and public freedoms, there has always been a left reading (freedoms) and a right reading (order).
Castaner had failed in the defense of the police, Darmanin played it Sarko way (and even Pasqua way), to excess and to fault.
These are indeed two planets that have collided.
Emmanuel Macron arbitrated in favor of Christophe Castaner.
Let's say he refereed, it was urgent, for a return to calm in his majority.
But let's not forget that Christophe Castaner is an early companion in the conquest of power by the Head of State.
Not Gérald Darmanin, who rallied after the defeat of the right in 2017, which does not earn him only friends, neither on the left nor of course in his former family of the Republicans.
And let's not forget either that Emmanuel Macron, when he finally resolved to dismiss Castaner from Place Beauvau last July, offered him a position of personal advisor at the heart of the Elysee Palace.
Here again is a story of fidelity, a human story.