On the model of his predecessors, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin on Tuesday refuted the term "police violence", believing before the Law Commission of the National Assembly that the police exercise "legitimate violence".
For the minister, the term "police violence" is "contradictory". "There may be abuses, which we must sanction and I think that the government sanctions them and if it does not do so, the press, the unions, the parliamentarians remind the police hierarchy, the Minister of the Interior , which he must do and it is quite legitimate, ”he said.
The solution in education
"When I hear the word 'police violence' I personally suffocate," said the Minister of the Interior. “The police exercise violence, of course, but legitimate violence. (…) It must do it in a proportional way, it must do it in a supervised way. That some people do it outside the ethical rules, the sanction must be immediate ”, he added. "But it is normal that the police and gendarmes are armed, intervene by force, so that the force remains in the law of the Republic and not that of the bands or the communities", according to him.
Judging that "the crisis of authority comes from afar", Gérald Darmanin thinks that "the keys to the solution, (...) it is the bunch of the Minister of National Education". “When we take care of kindergarten children, I'm sure that in the end the police have a little less work. I am not angelic, there will always be people who, despite a good education, will be violent, will be traffickers and they will have to be sanctioned. But it is obvious that when we have few words of vocabulary, when we did not know authority when we were a child, when we are excused about everything and at all times, we have an authority crisis when we are 15, 20, 25 years old ”, according to him. "The Minister of National Education and the very important credits which one grants to him and the policy which one leads will allow the Minister of the Interior in 15 or 20 years to have a little less work".
"Police violence" has regularly been denounced during demonstrations of "yellow vests" and more recently during marches in tribute to Adama Traore or Cédric Chouviat, who died during interventions by the police.
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