During a trip to Nice on Monday, Emmanuel Macron spoke about security during an exchange organized with elected officials, members of the police and citizens. While he is not yet officially a presidential candidate for next April, his proposals go beyond the end of his five-year term.
With our special correspondent in Nice, Yoram Melloul
The timing questions, while the right and the far right attack him on his security record. Emmanuel Macron is trying in Nice to show a face of firmness on these issues. When he talks about drug trafficking, for example. ” Festive, recreational, friendly drugs, among friends with the means, it is a complicity of this network. These are the people who fundamentally subsidize those who make your life impossible », He insists.
Exactly as a candidate would, the President of the Republic proposes ” the creation of a republican action force for the neighborhoods. And we have an objective which is to double the police presence on the public highway by 2030. We will accelerate the replacement of active and armed police or gendarmes by administrative staff for administrative tasks. And, from 2023, there will no longer be a single one of these personnel active in administrative control functions. “.
But Emmanuel Macron does not stop there in his proposals. Generalization of flat-rate fines, doubling of the police presence in transport, an additional 15 million euros over five years for the security budget … A whole series of measures which will be presented to the Council of Ministers in March, but which will not can only be adopted after the election. In other words, if the president not yet a candidate is re-elected.
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So, is he a candidate or not? He will have to make up his mind to say it.
The oppositions annoy the promises of Emmanuel Macron, still not a candidate