The exercise of Mr. Darmanin during the first five -year term of Emmanuel Macron was notably marked by the law on global security and the Beauvau de la security which highlights more means for the police.
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The journey of Gérald Darmanin, one of the historic taking of Macronie on the right, continues in the government. The former minister of the interior of 39 years, also a renaissance candidate – the new name of the Republic on the march – in the legislative elections in the North, rewinds as Minister of the Interior in the Government formed by the Prime Minister , Elisabeth Borne, Friday May 20.
He who was a deputy for the north entered the government after the election of Emmanuel Macron, in May 2017, as Minister of Action and Public Accounts. This will earn him an exclusion from the Les Républicains party. In this position, he brought the reform of the tax levy to the source, concretized in early 2019.
He became Minister of the Interior in July 2020, in the new government formed by Jean Castex, and distinguished himself as a security bridgehead of the executive, applying without complex the method of his mentor, Nicolas Sarkozy. An interview in Le Figaro points out, in which he laments ” The Society “. He restores the policy of the figure – renamed “result” – for certain missions of the police and is in the maneuver of the law known as “against separatisms”. In a few weeks, he published the national scheme of maintaining order and the White Board of Internal Security, two structuring documents for the police.
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In 2021, Gérald Darmanin picked up the media against him and the law on “global security”, whose article 24 plans to restrict the dissemination of intervention images of the police – which constitutes, however the ‘One of the means, according to the lookouts of security policies, to prevent or document the cases of police violence. In May of the same year, he was present – just like leftist political leaders – to a police demonstration in front of the National Assembly, a brand of support very criticized by the opposition, while the rally is illustrated by the Slogan “The police problem is justice”. His relations with the Keeper of the Seals, Eric Dupond-Moretti, turn to sour. Place Beauvau, Gérald Darmanin will also have to manage, among other things, the death of at least twenty-seven migrants in the Channel and the question of crack in Paris.
Faced with the claims of the police, but also to the distension of the link between the police and the population after cases of violence such as the tobacco passage of Michel Zecler, in November 2020, the Minister organized the Beauvau de Security throughout 2021. A few weeks before the presidential election, he took stock of his action during the great oral of the candidates at the Elysée organized by the Union of Police Alliance. He notably argues increases in staff and budget (15 billion euros over five years), the modernization of the equipment, vehicles – “two thirds of the park have been changed” – to individual phones via by cameras and uniforms, but also strengthening the initial and continuous training.
Gérald Darmanin was the subject of a rape investigation, after Sophie Patterson-Spatz accused him of having promised him a “service” in exchange for sexual favors, in 2009. In 2018, an “order Not to be informed “said that the preliminary investigation made it possible to rule out the accusations. In June 2020, the Paris Court of Appeal ordered the resumption of investigations. In January 2022, the Paris prosecutor’s office requested a dismissal in this case. Another investigation open against Mr. Darmanin for “abuse of weakness”, after a woman had said to have “felt forced” to have sex with him, was classified without follow -up.