According to information from franceinfo, it was during a stopover in Japan before his trip to New Caledonia, that the Head of State became aware of the controversial remarks of the director general of the national police Frédéric Veaux in the press.
The surprise. Emmanuel Macron discovered the controversial remarks of the director general of the national police Frédéric Veaux in the press, while he was on a stopover in Japan before his trip to New Caledonia, according to information from franceinfo.
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Sunday July 23, in an interview with Parisian / Today in France, Frédéric Veaux said he was in favor of the release of a Marseille BAC policeman detained as part of an investigation into police violence committed on the sidelines of the riots at the beginning of the month. These remarks aroused a wave of indignation on the part of the left in particular.
And it is an understatement to say that this anger of the police, who have decided to provide the minimum service to protest, poisons the trip of the head of state to New Caledonia, 16,000 km from Paris. Emmanuel Macron tried to kick into touch Monday by declaring to be “the guarantor of the institutions“, before sliding: “No comment“Emmanuel Macron nevertheless assured that he understood”emotion“of the police, but faithful to his strategy of “at the same time”, he also recalled that no one was above the law.
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Half-hearted support, some will say, recalling that the president had already considered that the death of young Nahel in Nanterre was “inexcusable” And “unjustifiable“. In Nouméa, Emmanuel Macron also remembered that calm after the urban violence returned in four days, praising the work of the police and his Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin. The fact remains that the riots in early July left a real trauma, including political, by marking the final assessment of the famous “100 days”.
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But discovering the controversial remarks of the boss of the police when opening the newspaper, this also marks a break, even though the head of state was traveling with a certain Gérald Darmanin. “I have no comment to make,” thus sweeps away an adviser to the Minister of the Interior who, like his boss, has great difficulty in hiding his embarrassment.
Moreover, Monday, July 24, Gérald Darmanin had his face closed, his eyes often riveted on his phone, looking preoccupied, refusing to answer all questions from journalists, which is rather unusual. The Minister of the Interior has so far always played the card of proximity with the police, on the strength of a relationship of trust with the unions. According to several of his colleagues, his influence would be stronger and stronger in the government, even if it means making him an indispensable, essential minister, paying himself the luxury of planning his political return, at the end of August at his home in Tourcoing, at the risk of becoming too cumbersome. Him, whose name has circulated a lot in recent weeks for the post of Prime Minister. Finally, even if it is only lip service, Emmanuel Macron preferred to comfort Élisabeth Borne at Matignon.