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VIOLENCE, DELINQUENCY AND DRUGS IN FRANCE

On the eve of his visit to a Montpellier police station with his Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, Emmanuel Macron gave an interview to “Figaro” on Sunday April 18.

Police, drugs, repercussions after the trial of the murderer of Sarah Halimi :

the head of state launched a new offensive on security, a key subject of the 2022 presidential election and assured himself to fight "for the right to peaceful life".

10,000 police recruitments confirmed by 2022

Emmanuel Macron had already announced the recruitment of 10,000 additional police and gendarmes by the end of his five-year term. It confirms this objective. "Each police district will have more police at the end of the five-year term than at the start, without exception." 4508 police officers and 1706 gendarmes have already been recruited.

The President of the Republic has promised to want to meet his objective of 10,000 additional police and gendarmes.

"Each French will see more blue on the ground in 2022 than in 2017. It reassures people, it deters delinquents," he announced.

"We will have in addition, from this year, 2000 police and gendarmes more" of which "most" will go "directly on the public highway".

Numbers and more numbers

Emmanuel Macron also announced the creation in Montpellier, where 50 additional police officers will come as reinforcements by the end of 2022, of a "war school with continuous training" for police officers as well as the modernization of their uniform and the replacement of the cap by a cap.

The President of the Republic is also counting a lot on the deployment of pedestrian cameras, within the framework of the “global security” law just adopted in Parliament: “They will change everything”, because they will help “prevent slippages” and “ inhibit violent people ”.

No "systemic police violence"

He also returns to “police violence”, and wants to be extremely clear: “There is no systemic violence by the police, it is false; there is no systemic racism in the police, that is wrong, any more than there is in the gendarmerie or in the state. ".

Emmanuel Macron had used the expression "police violence" in December to immediately contradict it.

"" If in all the polls, all the field surveys, young people tell you that they undergo face checks, tell them: 'no, there isn't, it's a feeling you have' , it is as crazy as going to explain to people: “you may feel insecure but it is not a reality”. ”"

Drugs as "economic matrix of violence in our country"

Regarding the proliferation of violent settling of accounts between gangs, Emmanuel Macron notes that drug trafficking “explodes” and “forms the economic matrix of violence in our country.” “Eradicating them by all means has become the mother of battles. , since drugs innervate certain separatist networks but also everyday delinquency, including in the small towns spared until now. Leaving no respite to drug traffickers is to reduce delinquency everywhere, ”he underlines He declared that 70,000 fixed tort fines have been drawn up since September. These fines of € 200 penalize the use of narcotics. President Macron recognizes a "sharp increase" in violence against people.

Regarding drugs, "France has become a country of consumption and therefore, we must break this taboo, launch a major national debate on drug consumption and its deleterious effects". But also a self-sufficient production country for cannabis.

Emmanuel Macron also said he wanted a change in the law so that the abolition of discernment caused by taking narcotics does not exonerate his criminal responsibility , after the decision of the Court of Cassation in the murder of Sarah Halimi, a Jewish sexagenarian. killed in 2017 in Paris. “Deciding to take drugs and then going 'like crazy' shouldn't take away your criminal responsibility in my view. On this subject, I hope that the Minister of Justice will present a change in the law as quickly as possible, ”declared the Head of State.

15,000 prison places confirmed

Also in his interview, Emmanuel Macron confirmed the creation of 15,000 new prison places under his five-year term. “We have already launched 7,000 and I will hold the 15,000 there too. We will do the remaining 8,000 in stride. As of this week, the government will present the action plan and the sites for these additional places ”.

The hallucinatory verdict of police attack in Vitry-Châtillon

But while the President of the Republic is paying a visit on the subject of security this Monday in Montpellier, the police are still as targeted in recent weeks, in particular by fireworks mortar fire. The trial of the Viry-Châtillon tragedy also delivered its verdict this weekend, causing incomprehension among many police officers. The Paris Assize Court in fact sentenced five defendants on appeal to terms ranging from 6 to 18 years' imprisonment and acquitted eight others. They were on trial for the violent assault on police officers in Viry-Châtillon in 2016 (throwing Molotov cocktails at police vehicles and assaulting injured police officers). A judicial shipwreck for the police.The thugs who lock up two police officers to burn them would they be "a wealth for the Nation ", as the Advocate General said at the trial? !!

Police unions have called for action, a demonstration on Tuesday, April 20 around noon.

The focus of criminologist Alain Bauer on CNews

Alain Bauer therefore addressed the delicate question of the penal response in France: the police and the justice must speak to each other as partners, recalls the criminologist. "The police consider the magistrates as lax and the magistrates consider the police and fascists. These two postures which aim to insult rather than construct a penal policy are important. (...) In France we do not know how to talk to each other and we consider ourselves as adversaries whereas we should rather be partners ”.

He also spoke about the anger of the police:

“They are extremely mistreated. If the state were a private employer, he would be in prison for not respecting labor regulations, ”according to the criminologist.

Faced with the exasperation of the French in the face of multiple insecurities, "destructuring of the model of the State" (according to Alain Bauer), Emmanuel Macron tries to regain control of the regal face to the right and the extreme right of Marine Le Pen.