As France prepares for its presidential election in April 2022, the issue of security occupies more and more place in the electoral campaign. President Emmanuel Macron made new proposals the day before yesterday on this theme. He says he wants to double the number of police on the ground by 2030.
For her part, the Republican candidate, Valérie Pécresse, wishes “to bring the kärcher out of the cellar”, a phrase used in 2005 by former President Nicolas Sarkozy who intended to “clean up” the suburbs and neighborhoods where insecurity reigns. The far-right candidate Eric Zemmour is no exception either: he promises to divide the number of delinquents if he is elected president.
The opportunity to question the daily life of police officers in France, with Mikaël corre, daily journalistThe cross. He has just spent a year immersed in a police station in Roubaix, in the north. This week, he published an investigation entitled “At the police station, A year in the heart of the police”.