For Valérie Pécresse, “the Jeremie Cohen affair” is revealing of the“Total impunity that the government has organized and which is part of the balance sheet that Emmanuel Macron does not want to account for”. This 31-year-old young man, of the Jewish faith and suffering from an invisible handicap, “was probably attacked by a gang of drug dealers”, said the candidate Les Républicains for the presidential election, this Wednesday on franceinfo. In a video shot by a witness, we see him being hit by several people a few minutes before being fatally hit by a tram in Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis).
“I don’t know if the anti-Semitic character will be recognized for this act”, continued Valérie Pécresse, while the public prosecutor of Bobigny estimated on Tuesday that it was too early to say. One thing is certain, for her, “the new anti-Semitism in a certain number of neighborhoods in France exists”. “It is a reality against which we must fight step by step, it starts at school”she insisted.
Death of Jeremie Cohen ➡️ “I don’t know if the anti-Semitic character will be retained in this case, but the new anti-Semitism exists against which we must fight step by step,” says the candidate. “I see this impunity that the government organized.” pic.twitter.com/AoqEZKUexM
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“The scandal of this Jeremie Cohen affair is that in the end the parents wrote to the town of Bobigny to ask it to make available the videos which proved the circumstances of the attack, and that the town did not answeredshe also denounced. Me, what I want is video surveillance everywhere.”
Valerie Pécresse “also wants municipal police compulsory in all towns with more than 5,000 inhabitants”. If elected, “it is the State that will help the cities to be able to fulfill this new compulsory competence”. As for those who refuse to arm their municipal police, “They will have to justify themselves to their people”she warned.
Finally, the Republican candidate wants to introduce “firm minimum sentences from which judges cannot exempt themselves” and create “provisional centers” with electronic bracelet while waiting to build new prisons, where she wants “to put the caïds who rot the life of the districts”.
Security ➡️ Valérie Pécresse wants to introduce “minimum sentences from which judges will not be able to exempt themselves”. She also “centers” to “put the bosses who rot the life of the districts” and “compulsory municipal police in the cities of more than 5000 inhabitants”. pic.twitter.com/ndzp1nYVHD
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