The Minister of the Interior is going to Reims on Monday, particularly in the Red Cross district where businesses were damaged and looted, during violence in reaction to the death of Nahel, this 17-year-old young man killed by a policeman in Nanterre.
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, will go on the morning of Monday July 3 to Reims (Marne) in the district of the Red Cross, indicated on France Bleu Champagne-Ardenne Arnaud Robinet the president of the Hospital Federation de France (FHF) and mayor of Reims, as well as the Ministry of the Interior at franceinfo.
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The minister is expected around 9 a.m. He will meet elected officials and traders “which suffered degradation and looting”, explains the mayor of Reims. The Croix-Rouge district, south-west of Reims, was also the scene of violence in response to the death of Nahel on Tuesday June 27 in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine). The police station was attacked last week.
The Minister of the Interior will then participate at noon from Reims in the rally in support of elected officials before discussing with the police and emergency services mobilized, “the national police officers, the gendarmes, the municipal police officers and the firefighters, those who ensured our safety and who were strongly mobilized”explained Arnaud Robinet.
“We cannot attack representatives of the Republic”
Arnaud Robinet, Mayor of Reimsto France Bleu Champagne-Ardenne
He also referred to facts “unjustifiable” the attack on the home of the mayor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses (Val-de-Marne), Vincent Jeanbrun, with a ram-car on the night of Saturday July 1 to Sunday July 2. “We cannot attack representatives of the Republic, in particular the mayor of L’Haÿ-Les-Roses and his family. The sentences must be firm”, he reacted. But “Beyond the mayor, I think of all those who experience this violence almost on a daily basis. We really need to restore security throughout the territory. We also have to ask ourselves the right questions. Why did we come to this?”he continued.
Arnaud Robinet was criticized for having published a tweet on Friday June 30 when his city was suffering damage: “The scum took the pretext of a death to sack Reims to loot, to burn, to destroy. Simply, for pleasure”he wrote. “I fully assume”he reacted on Monday July 3 on France Bleu Champagne-Ardenne. “I do not understand those who blame me for it or who attack me by saying to me, you stigmatize the people of the neighborhood”continued the mayor of Reims. “When people commit damage, looting that attacks public facilities and businesses, I see no other term than thugs”he said.
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In the afternoon of Monday July 3, Gérald Darmanin will go to Saint-Quentin (Aisne), the Minister of the Interior told franceinfo. He will discuss with the mayor, with the traders who are victims of damage. “He will also hold a videoconference from the sub-prefecture with all the prefects and sub-prefects of France on the current context”explained the Minister.