The first secretary of the Socialist Party, guest of France Inter, castigates the remarks made by Emmanuel Macron during his July 24 interview with France 2 and TF1. Olivier Faure believes that the head of state should have “remembered the rules and demonstrated authority”.
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Olivier Faure denounces Tuesday, July 25 on France Inter a reaction “appalling” by Emmanuel Macron, in the face of “sedition threats” in the police. The first secretary of the Socialist Party is indignant at the reaction of the Head of State to the remarks of Frédéric Veaux, director general of the national police (DGPN)who wishes to see released the police officer indicted and imprisoned for violence in Marseille.
During an interview given on Monday July 24 from Noumea, Emmanuel Macron said “to understand“emotion, while recalling that”no one is above the law“. For Olivier Faure, “we should have had a Head of State who recalls the rules, who also calls to order and who shows authority with regard to these two senior officials who are in transgression“. The Paris police chief, Laurent Nuñez, indeed said “share the words of the DGPN“.
For Olivier Faure, a “revision of the doctrine of maintaining order” is needed
The first secretary of the PS considers two the two civil servants “challenge the Republic” and the “constitutional rules“. According to him, Emmanuel Macron should have taken a “simple decision“, like the one taken by François Mitterrand in 1983, “face the same threats of sedition in the police : dismiss those who had not been able to guarantee the democratic police“.
“We have a Head of State who has forgotten that the motto of our Republic is not order, order, order, but freedom, equality, fraternity“, says Olivier Faure. “I love the republican policesupports the first secretary of the PS, but for it to be respected, we need rules that apply to all“. He calls for the “policing doctrine review“.
“The vocation of the police is to protect all French people, and not to be at war against pests, as expressed by the Alliance union“, says the first secretary of the PS. On the choice of words of the union, used in a joint press release with Unsa police, Olivier Faure deplores that “neither the Minister of the Interior nor the Head of State found fault with it“.