Secretary of State at the Ministry of the Interior Laurent Nuñez on Sunday called "Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his friends" out of "a form of angelism" regarding violence against law enforcement during protests. "yellow vests".
"We must go out, for some politicians like Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his friends, a form of angelism that is scary," said Laurent Nuñez on BFMTV. He accused parliamentarians of insubordinate France, who tabled Friday in the National Assembly a bill "to prohibit the use of LBDs (throwing balls of defense) and teargas grenades type F4", and their boss , to "use the situation".
300 arrests throughout the territory during "Act 10". "We have the impression that we have nice pacifist activists and then that there are police officers who attack them and that is why we have violence, we must stop and get out of this angelism", he insisted. "A day like yesterday (the 10th Saturday of mobilization), it is nearly 300 arrests, which is enormous but which corresponds well to the violence of certain individuals on these demonstrations", detailed Laurent Nuñez.
I note a disturbing angelism of certain political formations.
The defensive bullets launcher is used when demonstrations have degenerated into urban guerrilla warfare.
They are handled by police officers or gendarmes authorized and trained for their use. pic.twitter.com/fAOMHTQSoU
"If the police no longer have LBD, we will witness dramas". According to the Interior Ministry, the "yellow vests" were 84,000 to demonstrate Saturday for their "act 10", a stable figure compared to their mobilization the previous week. Laurent Nuñez again justified the use of the defensive bullet launcher (LBD) by the "unprecedented" violence against the police. "If the police no longer have defensive bullets, we will witness dramas, it is the police who will be lynched," he warned. "In general, in demonstrations, they are not used When the LBDs are used, it is because the demonstration turned into an urban guerrilla," he added.
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The IGPN seized 81 judicial inquiries. As of 15 January, the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) had been seized of 81 judicial inquiries concerning events that took place during the days of action of "yellow vests". Of these 81 investigations, investigators identified 31 wounded "serious or serious", that is to say with a total incapacity for work (TTI) of more than eight days, said a leader of the IGPN.