The police unions demanded in a letter to Emmanuel Macron ” an anti-corruption law “also requested by Gérald Darmanin, assuring that the police live a” apocalyptic situation ” It front of ” violence » which punctuate the demonstrations, in particular after the mobilization of May 1st.
It is not the head of state, but his chief of staff, Patrick Strzoda, who will receive the police unions on Friday May 12. A request for an appointment accepted in just a few hours by the Élysée, proof that the executive wants to show that it takes the subject very seriously.
On the program of this meeting, the police unions, led by Alliance, should assert the need for an anti-rioter law after the violence that took place during the May Day demonstrations. In Paris, a police officer caught fire and found himself seriously injured after a molotov cocktail was thrown. ” This is a first step. Our goal is to be received by the Head of State “, explained a spokesperson for Alliance, Éric Henry.
For his part, the secretary general of the SGP police unit, Grégory Joron, sent to all the presidents of parliamentary groups, with the exception of that of LFI, a letter insisting on the need to “ legislate ” For “ ban demonstrations with violent and dangerous elements also for our democracy “.
These initiatives come to support the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, who, the day after May 1, had again called for the development of an anti-breaker law.
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A minimum sentence for law enforcement attackers
In addition to this anti-riot law to limit their presence even before the start of a demonstration, the police should also ask ” a penal response with a minimum sentence for the aggressors of the police, and this, from the first facts committed ” or ” the inclusion in the law of the use of drones for preventive use “.
” Will we have to wait for a drama to intervene in the ranks of the police or the demonstrators so that the political power and the legislator finally become aware of the gravity of the situation? asks the secretary general of the SGP police unit.
Not sure, however, that the Élysée accedes to all these requests from this first meeting. On Wednesday May 3, the government spokesman, Olivier Véran, was circumspect, arguing that there was ” no response at this stage on the need for a new law.
He recalled that in 2019, the Constitutional Council had emptied a similar text of its objective, by censoring the possibility for prefects to issue administrative bans on demonstrations. Nevertheless, the Keeper of the Seals Eric Dupond-Moretti and Gérald Darmanin must study the question.
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(With AFP)