“I blame Jean-Luc Mélenchon for wanting to take advantage of this tragedy to forget what happened”, reacted Wednesday, June 8 on franceinfo the MEP LR Brice Hortefeux, former Minister of the Interior, after the comments of Jean-Luc Mélenchon on the death of a young woman killed by police fire during a check. The leader of the Insoumis had affirmed “the police kill” the day after the tragedy.
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“When there is a death, it is a signal of failure. I feel it like that. The police feel it like that”, says Brice Hortefeux. He means “clearly things” and ensures to be “on the side of the police” and not “on the side of the delinquents”. He wishes to recall the thread of the intervention of the police. “The police observed a vehicle in which there was a possible violation. The vehicle does not comply.” After the fact, “we then discover that the driver was without a license” it was “sought” and that he had “80 mentions in the criminal record file.”
The former Minister of the Interior stresses that “the police are victims of a refusal to comply”. And according to him, in 2021, there was “26,000 refusals to comply” recorded by the police and the gendarmes. “There are 10 million police interventions a year”insists Brice Hortefeux. “There is a police intervention in our country every 10 seconds.” Brice Hortefeux therefore wishes “not sum up this drama” and calls not to “take the opportunity to bring shame on those who have the responsibility to protect our society and protect our fellow citizens.”
Asked moreover about the legislative elections, Brice Hortefeux believes that there are, among the candidates for deputy, “those that will be useful and those that will be useless”. “You will have deputies who will be useless for our society because we already know where they will be”insists the Republican. “The Nupes will be against” the government. “The elected representatives of the National Rally, we know that they will be systematically against. We know that the deputies of the presidential majority, because it is in the nature of things, will be systematically for.”
Faced with these offers, Brice Hortefeux ensures that there will be “a political family, the family of Republicans, which will be useful because there will be no sectarianism, no a priori”. According to him, if the proposals of the majority are “useful to our society, if it is in the general interest, we will be for it. And if this is not the case, we will be against it”. “They will be useful deputies”insists Brice Hortefeux.