Elisabeth Borne asks that “justice can do its job calmly”

She wants to maintain balance. Questioned during a visit to Le Havre (Seine-Maritime) on Tuesday July 25, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne reacted for the first time to the case of the police officer imprisoned in Marseille for suspicion of violence. “Everyone must be aware of the difficulty of their mission, they were able to face very strong violence”argued the head of government about the police, “very mobilized” according to her after the urban riots at the end of June.

Elisabeth Borne also refused to talk about differences on this subject between President Emmanuel Macron and the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, who showed his support for opponents of pre-trial detention for police officers. “Everyone says the same thing”she assured, insisting on the “police mission difficulties” to whom she paid tribute before calling for calm, so that “justice can do its job serenely”.

The support given by the director general of the police, Frédéric Veaux, to the mobilization against the imprisonment of an agent of the BAC of Marseille within the framework of an investigation into police violence aroused Monday the indignation of the magistrates and the political class, pushing the executive to react. From New Caledonia, President Emmanuel Macron refused to comment on the words of the police chief, before letting go: “No one in the Republic is above the law.”