Violence: Emmanuel Macron evokes in the Council of Ministers a "process of decivilization"

Europe 1 with AFP / Photo credits: Arthur N. Orchard / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP 18:13 p.m., May 24, 2023

Emmanuel Macron compared, Wednesday in the Council of Ministers, the violence "whatever the cause" to a "process of decivilization", according to a participant in the meeting, confirming information from the Parisian. "You have to be intractable on the substance. No violence is legitimate, whether verbal or against people. We must work in depth to counter this process of decivilization," said the President of the Republic, according to this source. This expression is intended as a "challenge of society" on itself, because "politics is not the only responsible," explained a close to the head of state quoted by the Parisian.

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There is no violence that is justifiable

Even if violence, against elected officials or public officials, is not always of the same nature, Emmanuel Macron stressed that there was "no violence that is justifiable, ever, in a society, whatever the cause". Government spokesman Olivier Véran expressed concern, the day after the death of a nurse at Reims University Hospital, about the absence of "restriction, ability to respect the one who saves the lives of people and oneself".

A minute of silence, in the presence in Paris of Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, was observed in all hospitals in France in memory of this nurse, Carène Mezino, killed by a man suffering from psychiatric disorders. "Let us ask ourselves about a society in which people who care, who take care, people who wear gowns, people who devote their days, their nights, to preserving the health of others are threatened.

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There is not even this limit, this restriction, the ability to respect the one who saves the lives of people and oneself," Olivier Véran told the press at the end of the Council of Ministers. Emmanuel Macron is due to travel Thursday to Roubaix (North) to pay tribute to three young police officers killed in a collision Sunday with a vehicle whose driver was heavily drunk and drugged. Left-wing parties have called for a large rally Wednesday in Saint-Brevin-les-Pins to support the resigning mayor of this commune of Loire-Atlantique, which has become the symbol of local elected officials victims of violence.