Gérald Darmanin complains a complaint against Philippe Poutou for “insulting” remarks on police

“The police kills,” said on FranceInfo, Wednesday night, the candidate of the new anticapitalist party (NPA) in the presidential election.

Le Monde with AFP

The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced on Thursday, October 14 that he would file a complaint against Philippe Poutou, the candidate of the new anticapitalist party (NPA) in the presidential election, because of his statements about the subject. of the police on Franceinfo on Wednesday night. In particular, Mr. Poutou said that “fifteen young people [were] killed by the police annually”.

“The words of Mr. Poutou to the police are insulting and unworthy of an elected representative of the Republic. On behalf of the Ministry, and to defend the honor of all the police, I complaint”, wrote Mr. Darmanin on his Twitter account . The complaint will be filed for “public insult”, clarified his entourage at the France-Press agency (AFP).

“The police kills, obviously the police kill,” said Mr. Poutou on Wednesday evening on Franceinfo. “Steve [Maia Caniço] in Nantes, in Marseille during a demonstration of the yellow vests a lady who closed her shutters, Rémi Fraisse a few years ago … It would be necessary to see the figures precisely, but, in the popular districts, it’s a Fifteen young people who are killed by the police annually, “he continued. “The police killed and she kills. Afterwards, we can discuss: assassination, murder, accident or burr, or self-defense of course,” added Mr. Poutou.

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m. Poutou, municipal councilor of Bordeaux, was asked about police violence following Dominique Lanoë, Assistant (France unsuitable, LFI) to the Mayor of Cachan (Val-de-Marne). “I thought the goal of the police was to protect the people, not necessarily having weapons to kill her, because that’s the meaning in good French French,” said Mr. Lanoë at the Board MUNICIPAL OF SEPTEMBER 30.

“Non-controlled remarks”

In a released news release Wednesday, the city of Cachan denounced a “video editing (…) voluntarily altering the reality of the remarks and facts of this public session”. “Unqualified remarks have been kept” in favor of a debate launched by the “elected opposition on the armaments of the municipal police”, she added. Wednesday evening, Mr. Darmanin asked the Mayor of Cachan, the Socialist Hélène de Comarmond, explanations on these “unacceptable” remarks, in a letter whose AFP had awareness. The Police Alliance union broadcast a statement on Twitter to welcome the support of the minister: “Hate Antiflic, the Minister of the Interior gives us reason”, he “asks for the Mayor of Cachan following the shocking remarks of An elected lfi “.

Steve Maia Caniço, a 24-year-old animator, disappeared during a police operation intended to stop an electro party on the edge of the Loire on the night of 21 to 22 June 2019. His body had been found one month after . A sub-prefect and a police commissioner were indicted for involuntary homicide in this file.

In Marseille, at the beginning of December 2018, Zineb Redouane, an 80-year-old Algerian, died after being infringed in the face by splits of tear gas grenada in his apartment of 4 e floor, During a manifestation of “yellow vests”. The survey, exotic in Lyon, is in progress.

Rémi Fraisse, a young environmental activist, was killed by an offensive grenade in 2014 during violent clashes on the controversial trailer of Sivens (Tarn). On March 23, the Court of Cassation definitely validated the non-place rendered in January 2018 in favor of the Grenada.

/Media reports.