Paris (AFP)

"Incompetence", "dissimulation", even "state scandal": Right and extreme right demand the head of the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner and a parliamentary inquiry into the killing of the police headquarters, including the author was linked to the "Salafist movement".

The Republicans and the National Assembly condemn the mistakes of the Home Secretary, who has been under pressure several times since arriving in Beauvau in autumn 2018 for his handling of the "yellow vests" crisis or after Steve's death. Maia Caniço in Nantes.

This time, the minister, who will be the guest Sunday of the newspaper of 1:00 pm of TF1, is gouging for having said Thursday, after the knife killing, that the assailant, stationed at the prefecture of police since 2003, "n 'had never presented behavioral difficulties' or 'any sign of alarm'.

Since then, the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office (Pnat) has taken up the investigation. And anti-terrorist prosecutor Jean-François Ricard revealed Saturday that Mickaël Harpon, an employee of the Intelligence Directorate of the Paris Police Prefecture (DRPP) "would have adhered to a radical vision of Islam" and was in contact with individuals of the "Salafist Islamist movement".

In the morning, the leader of deputies LR Christian Jacob announced to AFP that he would ask Tuesday the creation of a parliamentary commission of inquiry on this "very serious" case, the group being ready to use of his "draw right" (once per session) to create it.

Following suit, the head of the National Rally Marine Le Pen called for an "immediate" commission of inquiry, to establish "all responsibilities, in what appears already as a state scandal," adding on Twitter after the prosecutor's statements: the minister "must finally take his responsibilities and RESIGN! MLP # CastanerDemission".

For LR MP Eric Ciotti, there is "necessarily a malfunction". "How did the Minister of the Interior indulge in saying" circulate "," nothing to see ", either he knew and he wanted to hide the facts or he did not know and that means he is totally incompetent, but in both cases, his credibility is now totally zero to ensure the safety of the French, "he thundered on LCI.

Visiting Saturday in Provins (Seine-et-Marne), the former head of state Nicolas Sarkozy, said he also "will understand why and how such a thing is possible".

- "Enough is enough" -

The same tone of the chairman of the LR group in the Senate, Bruno Retailleau for whom the government "spoke too quickly in trivializing these terrible murders". Mr. Castaner "will have to explain to the national representation," he said on BFMTV. "Overwhelming", abounded other elected LR.

"Too much is too much," Mr. Castaner "can not stay in office.There is national security," said MP Guillaume Larrivé earlier, as well as Julien Aubert, candidate like him and Christian Jacob to the head of LR.

"How could a guy like this get behind the radar screens?" Eric Diard, co-author of a recent report on radicalization in the public services, also said about thirty suspected but not proven cases in the ranks of 130,000 gendarmes and 150,000 policemen.

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (Standing France), has also called for the resignation, saying that the minister "lied to the French".

On the left, David Habib (PS) judged a commission of inquiry "indispensable", saying that the killing "calls for serious and immediate decisions".

After an almost total silence Saturday in the majority, the Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe must also express himself in the Journal du Dimanche.

In the few voices in the majority, the LREM deputy Dominique Da Silva, regretting like others a "political recovery", judged on LCI "a little easy to ask the resignation" of the minister. "There is a flaw, that's for sure," he admitted, favoring a commission of inquiry.

A ceremony in honor of the victims of the attack will be held Tuesday at 11:00 at the police headquarters in Paris in the presence of Emmanuel Macron, announced Saturday the Elysee.

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