"The state promises, it can't do it, it's really the five-year period of gossip" affirmed the candidate LR hammering, in the south tempted by the RN vote: "it's the right that does the security" .
Distanced in the polls, competed on the economy by the promises of Emmanuel Macron, Valérie Pécresse was to meet police and retirees on purchasing power: "I campaign on two feet, the sovereign and the promise of 10% increase salaries, but I do it by financing my project, not by promising anything and everything“, she assured during a press briefing.
"Between the immobility of Emmanuel Macron and the demagoguery of Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, there is a third way", she added, setting out her proposals for minimum sentences and additional means for the police. and righteousness.
Without using the expression of "Kärcher" used in January in Salon-de-Provence, she promised to "put everything back together" because "fear must change sides" and "we need zero impunity".
After a night visit to the northern districts of Marseille on Thursday, Valérie Pécresse began her trip on Friday to the urban security center (CSU) in Rognac, a city of 13,000 inhabitants equipped with 128 cameras, where she praised a "real security tool ".
"I'm not going to throw flowers at myself but we are ten days away from the elections: it was I who financed the big CSU at the police headquarters which concentrates 30,000 cameras", she launched, in reference to the 50 % financed by the Ile-de-France region.
She also defended the use of drones, describing as "heresy" their ban on municipal police by the Constitutional Council.
Asked about the presumption of self-defense of the police, Valérie Pécresse considered "important that fear can be taken into account by the judge".
But "it's not a right to self-defense," she said.
The candidate, who regularly quotes the film "Bac nord" in her speeches, recalled her desire to make the municipal police a "third force", and assured the police of her "unwavering support" because "never, I, president of the Republic, I will not speak of police violence".
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