Paris (AFP)
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, presidential candidate, announced Tuesday that the rebellious France deputies of which he is the leader would not go to the police demonstration on Wednesday in front of the National Assembly, unlike others on the left.
"The police mobilization of May 19 is in no way a tribute to the murdered police officers, it is a demonstration for a book of corporate demands as shown in the leaflets of the police organizations", indicated Mr. Mélenchon on social networks , before a press release from the entire group of LFI deputies.
"We will not participate because we do not share the demands on the basis of which the police organizations call for demonstrations", namely increased criminal severity against law enforcement aggressors, write LFI deputies.
"The current penal code already provides that the murder of a police officer can be punished with life imprisonment. What more?", They add.
"We are in favor of a real republican national police force of proximity in the service of the general interest and of the French people", affirms LFI.
"We will not contribute to the general atmosphere of security escalation", warn the rebels, who believe that "the duo Gérald Darmanin (Minister of the Interior) and Marine Le Pen (president of the National Assembly) give the meaning of this event by deciding to go there ".
While security has once again become a theme of the electoral campaign, a few weeks from the regional and one year from the presidential election, many elected officials should be present at this gathering of police officers, including on the left since the leaders of the PS Olivier Faure , of the PCF Fabien Roussel and the probable candidate for the primary environmentalist of September Yannick Jadot announced their arrival.
Asked by AFP on the official position of the Greens, EELV number 2 Sandra Regol indicated that "everyone is free to go or not, there is no particular call".
"We are in solidarity with the plight of the police, we are very attached to the republican police which is part of the nation", but "there are already provisions in the law" allowing to condemn the attackers of the police, he said. she adds.
Wednesday's demonstration "has become a big event because the Minister of the Interior, instead of providing solutions to the police malaise, has chosen to go and demonstrate with the police in front of the People's Assembly," denounced Sandra Regol.
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