Gérald Darmanin denounced Monday the "insults" of Jean-Luc Mélenchon against the police, three of whom are in police custody in Paris for having killed the passenger of a car during a check and seriously injured the driver.

"The police kill and the factional group Alliance (police union) justifies the shootings and the death for" refusing to comply.

“When is the shame?

“, tweeted the leader of the Insoumis on the night of Sunday to Monday, one week before the first round of the legislative elections.

“Another unacceptable abuse of power.

The death penalty for refusing to comply.

The prefect approves?

The minister congratulates?

Shame is when?

“, he had already written earlier on the same social network.

Insulting the police “disgraces those who want to govern”, says Darmanin

“The police, the gendarmes deserve respect.

They do courageous, difficult work and risk their lives every moment.

Insulting them dishonors those who want to govern.

Let the investigations be done without using them as hostages of an electoral campaign, ”replied Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin.

Marine Le Pen for her part denounced the words "of incredible gravity" of Mélenchon "a few days before his political retirement".

"He therefore chooses dishonor by breaking definitively with the values ​​of the French Republic," added the leader of the National Rally.

“These are words unworthy of someone who claims to want to govern France”, reacted for his part Stéphane Le Foll, socialist mayor of Le Mans and former minister of François Hollande.

The general delegate of Alliance Frédéric Lagache denounced to AFP "unspeakable remarks" and announced a complaint "tomorrow" (Tuesday).

The driver briefly in custody

At the end of the morning on Saturday, three police officers opened fire in the north of Paris on the occupants of a car suspected of having refused to submit to a check and then of having "ran" on them, according to the account of a police source.

The police custody of the three police officers, two men and a woman, auditioned at the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) for "violence with a weapon by a person holding public authority" was extended on Monday, said the prosecution. from Paris.

The driver of the car was briefly placed in police custody at the hospital on Monday for "attempted homicide of persons holding public authority" before the measure was suspended, the 38-year-old man being ultimately in no condition to be heard at this stage.

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