Jean-Luc Mélenchon, guest Tuesday June 7 on France Inter, assumes “obviously” his remarks about the police after the death of a passenger during a traffic check in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. In a first tweet, on June 4, the leader of La France insoumise had denounced “an unacceptable abuse of power” and wondered: “The death penalty for refusing to comply. The prefect approves? The minister congratulates?” On June 6, he tweeted again: “The police kill and the factious group Alliance [le syndicat de policiers] justifies shooting and death for ‘failure to comply’.” Words that have been denounced by part of the political class.
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon takes nothing back from what he tweeted: “Do you think I write like that, out of distraction?” He denounces the lack of reaction to his first tweet, at the time of the facts. “As it did not work, I raised the tonehe acknowledges. And I get what I want because thousands of people hear that there is at least one person in this country, a politician, who does not accept the evolution of the use of force.”
.@JLMelenchon “obviously” assumes his remarks about the police who “kill” and the Alliance union, “a factional group”: “I say that it is not normal that someone is killed because he refuses to comply; he there is the law, punishments, fines but not the death penalty.” #le79Inter pic.twitter.com/C5pYh3kpPR
– France Inter (@franceinter) June 7, 2022
Jean-Luc Mélenchon points “four dead in four months for refusing to comply” and promises, if the legislative elections give him a majority and he is appointed Prime Minister, as he wishes, to “change this doctrine of use of police force” in France. “It’s not normal that we kill someone because there is a refusal to comply. There is the law, punishments, fines, but not the death penalty.”
For Jean-Luc Melenchon, “it is not acceptable” that the police unions demand the principle of “presumption of self-defence”. “The policeman fired. A young woman died. What was she guilty of? And he insists: “Whatever the offense committed, we are in a country where the death penalty does not exist.”
Jean-Luc Mélenchon wishes “reform the police the cellar to the attic”. He evokes the “shameful police device at the Stade de France”during the Champions League final, or the use of tear gas at the Gare de l’Est last week to disperse travelers who were trying to board substitute buses. “I believe it is necessary to stop this escalation”launches the leader of the Insoumis. “I am for a police force where there are peacekeepers who do local policing, judicial police who run after arms, human beings and drug traffickers, and between the two, forces who are there to protect the right to protest”, says Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
“I am for a peacekeeping police, public tranquility”he summarizes, while insisting on the fact that “to pose the debate of the doctrine of the use of force” don’t make him “an anti-cop”.