In an interview with “La Provence”, the Republican presidential candidate uses an expression of Nicolas Sarkozy from 2005 to talk about security. “I’m going to take the Kärcher out of the cellar. It’s been ten years and it’s time to use it”, she declared.
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In the footsteps of Nicolas Sarkozy. LR presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse, who will be in Bouches-du-Rhône and Vaucluse on Thursday January 6 to talk about security, says she wants “bring the Kärcher out of the cellar” for “clean up the quarters” and “bring order to the street”.“I’m going to bring the Kärcher out of the cellar. It’s been ten years and it’s time to use it. It’s about getting the streets back in order.” because “we no longer give an answer to the violence of the new barbarians”, declares the candidate of the right in an interview with Provence published Wednesday evening.
The candidate uses an expression used by Nicolas Sarkozy when he was Minister of the Interior and remained in political annals. Just after the death in June 2005 of an 11-year-old boy in front of his home in La Courneuve (Seine-Saint-Denis), Nicolas Sarkozy went there and announced his desire to “to clean with a karcher” the city of 4000 where the victim lived. “I want to clean up the quarters”, affirms in turn Valérie Pécresse, proposing to use in particular “punching brigades, including digital means, the tax authorities, but also the army, in order to secure the areas of intervention”.
While Emmanuel Macron is due to go to Nice on Monday on the same theme, she believes that “If he runs after the Republican candidate on this subject, it is good that there is excitement, concern in his camp”. “The ‘at the same time’ does not work on security. Macron is creating a diversion with his sentences, but when the French open their eyes to his record, they will see a crisis of total authority”, estimates Valérie Pécresse. “We have a president who talks constantly, to insult or to seduce. The French know me less, because I act”, argues the president of the Ile-de-France region.
Security is “the first of freedoms”, says the candidate again, using an expression of the National Rally which, according to her “thrives on public powerlessness”. “My political DNA is to do”, she insisted.