become an agitator”, assures Aurélien Pradié

“Gérald Darmanin has a temptation: it is to become an agitator”assured Tuesday April 11 on franceinfo the deputy Les Républicains (LR) of Lot Aurélien Pradié, while“a good Minister of the Interior is someone who appeases the country”. “When you are Minister of the Interior, you are not an agitator, in the electoral campaign. When you are Minister of the Interior, you have a great responsibility which is to calm the country, to appease it”he hammered.

>> Management of law enforcement: what to remember from the hearing of Gérald Darmanin before the Assembly’s law commission

Gérald Darmanin was invited on Wednesday April 5 to explain himself to the deputies of the law commission on the use of force by the police during the demonstrations against the pension reform and in Sainte-Soline (Deux- Sevres). A hearing during which the Minister of the Interior reaffirmed his support for the police despite the numerous criticisms formulated on the left such as by the Defender of Rights or the Council of Europe. “I tell the Minister of the Interior: your responsibility is not to get noticed”repeated the former number 2 of the Republicans. “I don’t like this way he has of constantly provoking”he continued, explaining that the unrest “has become a political method”.

Asked about the words of Gérald Darmanin and his desire to “look” the public subsidies paid to the League of Human Rights (LDH), Aurélien Pradié considers that “these subsidies are not allocated according to the goodwill of one or the other” and that their allocation should not depend on the “made of the prince”. “Is it for all that the Minister of the Interior to say that he will ‘look at’ such a subsidy to such an association? The answer is no, we are in a state of law”, continued Aurélien Pradié. If the deputy for Lot acknowledges that he “sharing questions with Gérald Darmanin”particularly concerned about “excesses of the League of Human Rights to which [il] will not [s’]get used to because they are serious”he insisted that “it is not up to the Minister of the Interior, like that, on a corner of the table, to make the decision” whether or not to grant subsidies, seeing this as a form of “degraded democracy”.

In recent weeks, the LDH has deployed citizen observers during demonstrations to, in particular, document the system of maintaining order, as was the case in Sainte-Soline on March 25. Gérald Darmanin argued that “the court of Poitiers itself does not[avait] not recognized observer status at the LDH” in Sainte-Soline, which the association had “attacked the decree of the prefect which prevented the transport of weapons” and had “called to demonstrate despite the ban”.