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The “Sunday in politics” program on July 2 receives François Patriat, president of the Macronist senators and senator from Côte-d’Or. He is invited to speak on debates concerning the maintenance of order and the role of the police. Topics that echo in the stands of the National Assembly and the Senate following the death of young Nahel.
There have been 700 arrests all over France since the five nights of violence following the death of Nahel in Nanterre. On the night of July 2, the home of the mayor Les Républicains of L’Haÿ-les-Roses (Val-de-Marne) was attacked. Are elected officials more and more targets? “Elected officials, more than in the past, today are taken to task (…) while mayors are ultimately the people closest to the population“, estimates François Patriat, president of the Macronist senators, invited on the set of the program “Sunday in politics”, on July 2. François Patriat also thinks that this new form of violence is in particular due to social networks but will never the link with immigration.
Avoid triggering the state of emergency
The death of young Nahel also revives the debate on the self-defense of the police. “The reaction of theState was firm, appropriate and graduated. (…) It has avoided tragedies“, says the senator. But he says he does not want the outbreak of the state of emergency for the moment because it limits the freedoms of the population. “For now, let’s try to calm things down with the means we have.“, he adds. In the case, the police unions immediately sided with their colleague, denouncing wild hordes and calling for a fight against pests.inadmissible” which shocked François Patriat.