The Minister also mentioned on Saturday, during a visit to Lyon, his wish to go back to “legislative changes” about expulsion procedures.
Le Monde with AFP
Some 3,000 “foreign delinquents” were expelled in two years from the national territory, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, said on Saturday July 30, on Visit in Lyon. “At the request of the President of the Republic, for two years, we expelled 3,000 foreigners offenders,” he said during a press briefing at the Rhône prefecture, without specifying nationalities or alleged facts .
“This is an unprecedented increase (…) and we must continue to do so,” added the tenant of Place Beauvau, visiting the capital of Gaul to inaugurate an administrative retention center (CRA) open open Since January and announce the opening of a second center for the beginning of 2023, which will carry the number of places available in the agglomeration at 280.
The Minister also spoke of his wish to return to “legislative changes” about expulsion procedures. “From January, when a police officer challenges a foreigner in an irregular situation, he can put him in CRA for three months to find a way to expel him in his country,” he said.
“This is not a minister we need”
Saturday afternoon, Mr. Darmanin conversed with residents of La Guillotière, a popular district of the center of Lyon. He also met the three police officers who had been attacked in this district on the evening of July 20, while they were trying to arrest a person suspected of theft, in the middle of a crowd who violently took them to task.
Friday evening, a bin policeman was struck and dragged by a man in a scooter refusing to comply. The suspect, who was alcoholic, was arrested and placed in police custody. The policeman has four days of temporary work interruption.
During his visit, the minister multiplied criticism of the policy of the mayor of Lyon, the ecologist Grégory Doucet, in particular in terms of security. The latter, who moved to the Guillotière on Friday, said he would not attend ministerial displacement: “This is not a minister we need, but more workforce”, did he tweeted Friday asking three hundred police officers nationals in addition.
m. Darmanin, who proposes to meet the mayor in September, hammered that he “had more than one hundred police officers” additional in Lyon “since I was minister”, a “new CRS permanent” as well as “two hundred police officers of PAF “(border police), which will arrive in January 2023.
reacting in a tweet to these ” New promises “, Grégory Doucet stressed that he was” imperative that, this time, his commitments [of Minister] are followed up, especially on the workforce “.