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Close-up in the 20 Hours newspaper on the theme of security, one of the main concerns of the French for the presidential election. We scrutinized the programs of all the candidates. It is the comparator of your newspaper, detailed by Valérie Astruc.
Insecurity: this is the unavoidable theme of the presidential race. The comparator of 8 p.m. will look at the solutions to fight against delinquency, put forward by the candidates. On the scale of repression, Valérie Pécresse wants to toughen sentences and create temporary detention centers for petty offenders. For Anne Hidalgo, prison is not always the solution. For short sentences, the socialist candidate wants to develop alternatives to incarceration.
Marine Le Pen, on the contrary, wants to reduce the alternatives to incarceration, and above all to enforce all sentences. The communist candidate is not outdone on the register of repression. The 30-year prison sentence for crimes against any holder of public authority will be extended to other professions. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, he wants to prohibit the police from using certain weapons such as tasers. Yannick Jadot prefers to attack the roots of delinquency. Éric Zemmour wants to give citizens the legal right to defend themselves, what he calls “the excusable defense“. Christiane Taubira should soon reveal her solutions.