Government spokesperson Sibeth Ndiaye is at the heart of a new controversy on Monday. Asked Sunday on France 3 about the arrest of a nurse who launched projectiles on the police during the demonstration of caregivers on June 16, Sibeth Ndiaye first recalled that "justice must be to exercise in a normal way, as for any citizen ", before specifying:" When I cannot explain that we throw stones at the police, I do not see how it should be absolved ".
A little later in the interview, she added: "I obviously understand the emotion aroused by the image we saw of his arrest. But at the same time, I couldn't explain to my children, for example, whether it is normal or not, to throw stones at the police. "
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"These words are unworthy of its function"
"These comments, made by government spokesman Sibeth Ndiaye, are unworthy of his duties," reacted the union of national police commissioners (SCPN), on Twitter. "We are in a very specific context. Violence has taken place in the demonstrations, and this recurrent violence must be condemned. It is not acceptable for a government spokesperson not to denounce these violence. to the citizens that one cannot, in the Republic, throw stones at the police force ", specified the general secretary of the trade union, David Le Bars, with the microphone of Europe 1.
Several voices were also raised at the RN and on the right to protest and even to demand the resignation of the spokesperson. "Seeing a member of the government putting the seriousness of an attack on the police into perspective is worrying," said the boss of senators LR Bruno Retailleau.
"We make him a bad trial"
Another bell on the side of the entourage of Sibeth Ndiaye. "Her comments were taken out of context. However, she was very clear and denounced the launching of projectiles against the police", is annoyed. More unexpectedly, LR MEP François-Xavier Bellamy also defended the spokesperson. "I think we would do him a bad trial based solely on this excerpt," he warned on Sud Radio,
"I hear people saying that we misinterpreted what he said," said David Le Bars. "I mostly heard a spokesperson who was ambiguous, who made a communication error and who should say it. This would clarify things."