Three police officers were caught violently Wednesday evening in the Guillotière district. “We must respect the Republic and that, it first goes through respecting the police. There will be additional means,” reacted the Prime Minister on Friday.
Le Monde
From Vaulx-en-Velin (Rhône), the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, estimated on Friday July 22 that it was necessary to “absolutely be able to sanction” those who injured and violently took the police on Wednesday evening in the center -ville de Lyon.
While the civilian crew “intervened for a snatching flight, [the police] were very quickly taken to task by the crowd” in the sensitive district of the Guillotière and the suspect took the opportunity to take the Leak, said a police source on Thursday at the France-Presse agency (AFP).
“The means of investigation will be strongly mobilized and we absolutely want to be able to sanction these behaviors which are not acceptable,” said M bounded on Friday, during a press point on the sidelines of a trip to the Lyon suburbs, on city policy in favor of sensitive neighborhoods.
judging that such facts cannot “remain unpunished” and that “we must react and act quickly”, the Prime Minister added:
“It is not tolerable to attack our police officers, who are there to protect the population. We must respect the Republic and that, it first goes through respecting the police. will have additional means. We will naturally put the means that must be and if we need to strengthen in these neighborhoods, we will do it. “
on Twitter , the Minister of the ‘Interior, Gérald Darmanin, had brought his “full support to our three police officers of unbearable violence in Lyon” on Wednesday.
Several political leaders, from the ranks of the Republicans (LR) to those of the National Rally (RN), provided their support for the injured police on Thursday and challenged the government. First, the president LR of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Laurent Wauquiez, said on Twitter that “these various facts are no longer various facts” but “the sign of a dark civilization”. “But rest assured, the mayor of Lyon is thinking about the possibility of launching an audit on the installation of cameras somewhere, one day, in the city,” he quipped.
These various facts are no longer various facts. They are a sign of a dark civilization.
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“At La Guillotière, the police are seen as a foreign force which bothers the order established by individuals having nothing to do in France. Since November, where it took 300 police officers so that I could enter it, Nothing has changed. What is Gérald Darmanin waiting for to regain control? “, reacted The acting president of the RN, Jordan Bardella, by relaying a video of the facts. The deputy LR of the Alpes-Maritimes Eric Ciotti a also declared its support “to our police officers attacked with iron bar by wild hordes in Lyon”. “How long are we going to tolerate this?” He asked.
On a video of the scene broadcast on social networks and relayed by the Alliance police union and the Lyonmag information site, three plainclothes police officers, two men and a woman, wipe out and projectile jets in front of the ‘ Entrance of a mini -market in this sensitive district.
“Colleagues will file a complaint for their injuries,” a police source told AFP. Alliance said that two and seven days of temporary incapacity for work (ITT) were prescribed for two of the police concerned. At the start of the year, a specialized field brigade was installed in the Guillotière district to try to stem delinquency and traffic, while the facts of violence have increased there for two years.