Villeneuve-la-Garenne (France) (AFP)
"We are putting in place a presumption of guilt" with regard to the police, denounced Marine Le Pen during a visit to the police station in Villeneuve-la-Garenne (Hauts-de-Seine) on Friday, after the minister's remarks. the Interior advocating zero tolerance for acts of racism in the police.
The president of the National Rally (RN) criticized the "recurrent abandonment" of the police who, despite "the millions of unpaid overtime hours, staggered hours, families threatened, insults permanently" had so far "at" less support from their hierarchy. "
"If the Interior Ministry's intention was to make the situation in our country worse, I think it is on the right track," said Marine Le Pen, accompanied by MEP Jordan Bardella.
Monday, Christophe Castaner asked that a systematic suspension be envisaged "for each proven suspicion of acts or racist remarks" emanating from the police, provoking the anger of the unions and a movement of mood in the profession.
"It is strictly unacceptable but above all it is terribly dangerous because the thugs of our country will hear that", reacted Marine Le Pen to the police station of Villeneuve-la-Garenne, a city where incidents had erupted at the end of April after the accident of a biker whose leg was broken in a collision with a police car.
This was followed by a few evenings of tension and confrontation between young people and police in several cities in the suburbs of Paris.
The RN president also denied the existence of police violence. "There are personal failures of course, but we cannot say that there is a structural problem of violence in the police of our country," she insisted.
She also invited Emmanuel Macron to "reaffirm his support for the police" Sunday during his televised address.
Finally, she called for suspicion "of racialists or indigenists (...) who seek to import into our territory racial conflicts deeply contrary to our principles".
"In France, there are no communities, there are only individual reports and I will fight as long as possible so that it is so until my last breath", she said. concluded.
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