Criticizing "a safe Waterloo" when discussing the record of Emmanuel Macron in the fight against delinquency, Mr. Ciotti sharply attacked the Head of State who will be visiting Nice on Monday, as a pretext according to the deputy to "a small electoral maneuver".
"Emmanuel Macron is in the process of misleading the institutions by campaigning with the means of the State in a shameless way. He comes to lay the fictitious first stone of a police station whose work will not begin for two years and whose permit application to build is not even filed, "lambasted the elected official who will not participate in the traditional Republican welcome.
The President of the Republic must make announcements on the police and security during this trip.
"I will not endorse this little electoral maneuver concocted by the mayor of Nice, Macron's first zealot," he added in an allusion to Christian Estrosi (ex-LR) with whom Mr. Ciotti has stormy relations.
"Emmanuel Macron has left society to run wild and will leave the French with a mechanical Orange France", cracked Mr. Ciotti.
In addition to the reference to the film by British director Stanley Kubrick, "La France, a mechanical orange" is also the title of a controversial essay by Laurent Obertone published in 2013 and acclaimed in far-right circles.
For Mr. Ciotti, "the candidate of the order, it is Valérie Pécresse" and the "Beauvau of the security or the white paper will have been only palaver having not led to any major law of orientation for the security interior or Justice ".
The executive has yet announced to present a text for the beginning of the year.
However, this will not be adopted before the end of the term of office due to the tight parliamentary calendar.
Taking up the accents of the primary on the right, and the day after Guillaume Peltier's departure from LR for Eric Zemmour's camp, Mr. Ciotti told Le Figaro again to be convinced of the "direct link between immigration and insecurity".
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