While the controversy continues to mount around the images of police violence, Emmanuel Macron and Jean Castex must also manage the sling caused by the controversial article 24 of the law on "global security".
Will the executive be able to emerge unscathed from the political crisis engendered by the debate around the law on "comprehensive security" and its controversial article 24. While some, in the majority, say that the article "points to certain death ", the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin, he has in any case no intention of withdrawing it.
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"There is no winning scenario," slips a ministerial adviser.
"If we withdraw it, we lose the support of the right," which will accuse the executive of letting go of the police, he adds.
The issue of police violence worsens the crisis
The independent commission launched by Jean Castex is awaiting his mission letter to look into the subject, but without rewriting this article 24, because this idea had set Parliament on fire, which wishes to keep control of the writing of the law.
Problem: the law was passed Tuesday in the National Assembly, and it will not be examined by the Senate before January.
And as we say to Matignon: "We must find a way out to reconcile freedom to inform and protection of the police".
In addition, the executive must also address the issue of police violence which has made this debate even more inflammable.
Emmanuel Macron asked his government for proposals.
A close friend of the Prime Minister admits: "We must solve the problem of black sheep who harm the police."