The secretary general of the CFDT greeted Tuesday on Europe 1 the withdrawal of article 24 of the comprehensive security law, announced Monday by the majority.
Laurent Berger, however, denounced the government's attitude during this controversy.
"All for that," he sighed.
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"There is no divorce between the police and the population": such is the message hammered Monday evening by the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin before the law commission of the National Assembly.
Not sure that this statement is enough to calm tensions, after a week marked by the muscular evacuation of migrants from Place de la République and by the aggression of music producer Michel Zecler by police officers.
The withdrawal of the very controversial article 24 of the comprehensive security law, Monday evening, was also announced in this perspective.
"This article 24 is a bad episode, frankly pitiful", tackled Laurent Berger, the national secretary of the CFDT, Monday on Europe 1.
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If the majority did not speak of withdrawing the article, Laurent Berger is not fooled.
"He is withdrawn, obviously everyone understands him. And we want to say 'all that for that'", sighed Laurent Berger.
"From the start, we said that the protection of public officials in the performance of their duties, and in particular of the police, is not incompatible with freedom of the press. If we had listened to that from the start, we would not would not have treated things like that ".
"We need full press freedom"
Article 24 was supposed to regulate the dissemination of members of the security forces in the exercise of their functions, but its many detractors denounced a formulation that was too vague, capable of limiting the freedom of the press in the future.
"We need full press freedom", asserted Laurent Berger.
"We saw last week that if we could not film, we had less ability to fight against the slippage of some. We obviously have to protect public officials in the performance of their duties, but that is not done against freedom of the press. "
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However, the national secretary of the CFDT wishes to condemn all violence, wherever it comes from.
"As far as I'm concerned, I can tell you that the images which showed a police officer on Saturday are extremely shocking and unbearable, just like the assault on Michel Zecler was," said Laurent Berger. "" We must not. to oppose the two, we must condemn both very strongly and bring justice to the culprits in both cases. "