LFI’s “crazy program”, anti-basin rally, Donald Trump… Gérald Darmanin’s “8:30 franceinfo”

The Minister of the Interior was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Monday July 15.

Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior and Renaissance du Nord MP, was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Monday July 15, 2024. Alliance du “dishonor” with LFI, mobilization against mega-basins, assassination attempt against Donald Trump… He answered questions from Fanny Guinochet and Jean-Rémi Baudot.

Gérald Darmanin calls on socialists “to separate from LFI”

The Minister of the Interior asks the socialists to be “reasonable” and of “separate from LFI” and his “crazy program”. More than a week after the second round of legislative elections, while France still does not have a new government, the Minister of the Interior believes that the Socialist Party has “a responsability” in the “institutional and political crisis” from the moment.

This alliance of the “dishonor” with La France Insoumise and the environmentalists, according to him, prevents any coalition with the PS: “When the socialists separate from La France Insoumise, I believe we will be able to work with them”believes Gérald Darmanin. “The socialists must separate themselves from the submission they have with the Insoumis, that they can finally put a demarcation between them who are men or women of the left who respect secularism, who have a great political history of our country, who are democrats and republicans that I respect, and the leftists”he decided.

Fear of “great violence” at next anti-basin rally

“Unfortunately, there will undoubtedly be violence.”declared Gérald Darmanin ahead of the anti-basin rally scheduled for July 16-21 in Melle in Deux-Sèvres. Fifteen months after the violent clashes during the banned demonstration in Sainte-Soline against the mega-basins that left many injured on both sides, the anti-basin collective and the police, the issues surrounding the water question are still causing serious tensions.

“We are expecting between 6,000 and 8,000 demonstrators, including a thousand extremely violent people, who could be described as radicalised, particularly people who come from abroad.”explained the Minister of the Interior. “We have banned entry into our territory to more than a hundred ultra-left activists who come from European countries around us”he said.

“Political difficulties are resolved electorally,” says Gérald Darmanin after the assassination attempt against Donald Trump

“Everyone should measure what is happening in the United States and draw conclusions for France”warns Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin after the assassination attempt targeting former US President Donald Trump during an election rally in Pennsylvania. The Northern MP believes that “Political difficulties are resolved politically, electorally, not through violence”.

Gérald Darmanin fears that the political violence, palpable in the United States, could spread to France, judging the risk “possible” given that “Political violence goes hand in hand with noise, fury, calls for sedition and sometimes calls for violence”The minister also insists on the responsibility that certain political figures may have through “their extremely violent words”. He thus evokes the “death threats” that political figures and the President of the Republic receive. For the deputy from the North, “When we call for a march on Matignon, when we call for political violence, it is never something that contributes to cooling down violence, period.”.

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