Did Gérald Darmanin lie in an interview about a deceased police officer?

The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, after the Council of Ministers, at the Elysee

December 9, 2020. -

• Interviewed on BFMTV on Wednesday, Gérald Darmanin said that a police officer had died in Bailly-Romainvilliers after being struck by a motorist who had fled.

  In reality, this member of the departmental intervention company of Seine-et-Marne was mown down by a BAC vehicle which was trying to stop a driver.

• According to the entourage of the Minister of the Interior, if the latter was aware of the conditions of the accident, his remarks are not a lie but an "error".

• In the past, Gérald Darmanin has already been caught in default for having made statements contradicted by the facts.

Would the Minister of the Interior have lied in the face of journalist Ruth Elkrief on Wednesday evening on BFMTV?

If he admitted during this interview that he sometimes made a few "blunders", some Internet users criticize him, on social networks, for a new "arrangement with the truth" ... And this from the very beginning of the interview.

Gérald Darmanin's little arrangements with the truth.

At the 45th second, the minister pays tribute to a police officer who died in Seine-et-Marne.

He claims he was "hit by someone who didn't stop".

It's wrong.

The policeman was struck by a BAC car.

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- Mr. Propagande (@MrPropagande) December 9, 2020

Asked by the journalist about the "Darmanin style", the Minister of the Interior wished to start by recalling that he was at the head of "a ministry, where women and men risk their lives every day".

And to add in a moved thought, speaking of him in the third person: "The Minister of the Interior had to know of the death of a police officer in Seine-et-Marne who was struck by someone who did not stop, who did his job and who leaves a bereaved family.

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A sad accident that the minister was already talking about earlier in the day, on Twitter, at the same time offering his condolences to the family and colleagues of this policeman, who died of his injuries on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday.

Except that according to 

, this policeman was not hit by a motorist, but by one of the vehicles of the Anti-Crime Brigade (BAC) which was chasing the driver.

20 Minutes 

takes stock.

A police officer died following an accident while carrying out his mission in Seine et Marne during the night of December 7 to 8.

I extend my sincere condolences to his family, his loved ones and to all his colleagues at the @PoliceNationale.

- Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) December 9, 2020

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According to the minister's entourage, contacted by 

Gérald Darmanin was however aware of the conditions of the accident at the time of the interview granted from Place Beauvau.

This same source refutes any will of the minister to lie and invokes an “error”.

The detail omitted by the "first cop in France" was known the day before, as reported in an article in Le 

 published Tuesday morning.

It was while trying to pick up a harrow placed on the roadway to stop a motorist, that the 33-year-old police officer, a member of the departmental intervention company of Seine-et-Marne, was struck on Monday night in Tuesday by one of two BAC vehicles chasing the fugitive.

The policeman succumbed to his injuries about twenty-four hours later, on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday.

The driver, in a state of obvious intoxication, was driving without a license and in a state of legal recidivism.

He was indicted for "refusal to comply aggravated by the deliberate endangering of the life of others" and "manslaughter aggravated by the deliberate endangering of the life of others".

He is also accused of acts of rebellion and death threats against the police during his arrest.

Presented to an investigating judge on Wednesday evening, the motorist was placed in pre-trial detention in the evening.

The driver of the BAC vehicle, whose blood alcohol and toxicology tests were negative, should not be blamed.

A habit of the Minister of the Interior?

In the past, Gérald Darmanin has already been caught in default for having made statements contradicted by the facts.

Friday, November 13, to defend article 24 of the proposed law on "global security", the Minister of the Interior referred to the two police officers who died murdered in the Magnanville attack in 2016. However, if the The assassination of these two officials at their home by a terrorist marked the spirits, the investigation has established no link, at this stage, with the dissemination of their image on social networks ... As Gérald Darmanin has himself recognized at the beginning of November before the Laws Commission of the National Assembly.

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