Paris (AFP)
EELV MEP Yannick Jadot ruled on Sunday "unbearable and unacceptable" the "scenes of violence and lynching of police officers at the end of the demonstration" against police violence the day before in Paris.
"The scenes of violence and lynching of police officers at the end of the demonstration are unbearable and unacceptable. Their perpetrators are opponents of democracy and the Republic," tweeted the environmental leader.
About sixty police and gendarmes (39 in regions and 23 in Paris) were injured and 81 people were arrested on Saturday during demonstrations against the text "Global security" and police violence, according to a report from the Ministry of the Interior.
Several videos posted on social networks showed police beaten by demonstrators, denounced as early as Saturday evening by the right and the far right.
Sunday, the head of the National Rally Marine Le Pen estimated on Twitter that the "Black blocs" should "be subject to the legislation on the leagues".
Retweeting a message from the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin she wrote: "You owe the French explanations on the impunity of the #blackblocs, who roam armed with pickaxes and Molotov cocktails in the demonstrations", while denouncing a " unbearable complacency ".
"Those who attack the police and the gendarmes, those must not remain free," said Xavier Bertrand, ex-LR president of Hauts-de-France and potential right-wing candidate for his part on BFMTV for 2022, believing that it is necessary to protect "those who protect us, on a condition, of course, that they are irreproachable".
In total, these demonstrations gathered, according to the Interior, 133,000 people including 46,000 in Paris, the organizers for their part announcing 500,000 participants including 200,000 in the capital.
Two demonstrators, who made a report to the General Inspectorate of Police (IGPN), were injured in the provinces, according to the police.
A freelance Syrian photographer, Ameer al Halbi, 24, who was covering the protest was injured in the face.
RSF Secretary General Christophe Deloire denounced Saturday night on Twitter the "unacceptable" police violence against this Polka Magazine and AFP employee.
Saturday in the day, Yannick Jadot had asked that Emmanuel Macron "hear" the "guarantors of the rule of law" and promotes the withdrawal of the bill "Global security", demanded by all the left.
Like the leader of the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Mr. Jadot also demanded the departure of the prefect of police Didier Lallement "who embodies all these liberticidal drifts", and wanted the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) to become an "independent" body.
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