Police violence: Gérald Darmanin defends his troops in the National Assembly
The Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin leaving the Elysee Palace on November 25, 2020. REUTERS - CHARLES PLATIAU
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Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin was auditioned this Monday, November 30 by the National Assembly's Law Commission, after a series of police violence that marked public opinion.
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I do not share the fact that there is a divorce between the police and its population.
There is no need to reconnect, this thread has never been lost, but there is to understand the difficulties experienced by the police and also to understand how the population today wishes to exercise legitimate force
” , declared the Minister of the Interior before the commission of laws of the National Assembly.
Reaffirming that the acts committed by the police officers implicated in the beating
of the music producer Michel Zecler
were "
unspeakable
", Gérald Darmanin considered that "
the individualities are not a whole
", warning that he "would
not bear not that we undermine the institution of the police and the gendarmerie
”.
It is necessary "to
give to the police force of the Republic, to the national gendarmerie, the means of the exemplarity which one requires of them
", said the minister during this hearing, before listing according to him the "
seven sins capital
”which weighs on the police.
The “seven deadly sins” of the police according to Darmanin
First sin in his eyes, "
the little training we offer our police
."
To remedy this "
I proposed to the President of the Republic this afternoon, a more important initial training
", said Gérald Darmanin.
Second sin, according to the minister: "
the fact that there are not enough leaders
".
It is necessary "to
recreate an intermediary body of supervision more numerous with the police officers and the police officers and the gendarmes on the ground
", he argued.
Then come the problems of "
material
" and "
images
", said the minister, reaffirming the interest of pedestrian cameras, which will be generalized on July 1, as he had announced.
Fifth sin: the question of inspections.
The minister considered that if reform of the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) there is to be done, the recommendations of the IGPN in terms of administrative sanctions should be followed by the minister.
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Gérald Darmanin argued that if the IGPN was "
as bad"
as some say, "
the public prosecutor of Paris would not have seized it
" of the investigation into the violence of which Michel Zecler was victim.
Finally, to strengthen the link between the police and the population, the minister recommended increasing the number of police members of the reserve to 30,000, ie the same level as the reserve of the gendarmerie.
(With AFP)
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