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The Minister of Solidarity and Families, Aurore Bergé, was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo” this Friday.
“To combine the term ‘police violence’ and ‘racism’ means discrediting an entire profession by pointing the finger at the police, putting a target on their backs and saying that they are racist”exclaims the Minister of Solidarity, Aurore Bergé, Friday September 22 on franceinfo. “This is not the case”, she adds on the eve of demonstrations against police violence. Some of these marches also have the slogan “fight against systemic racism”.
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“If we want to once again have men and women who engage in these professions, it is by having a minimum of respect for them and not by going against them and putting targets on their backs”, adds the minister. She attacks in particular the deputies who planned to go to these demonstrations. “When you go as a deputy with your tricolor scarf, it is for me an insult to the National Assembly to do so”she says.
“We are MPs for the Nation, so we represent all French people. I don’t feel very represented by MPs who, with their scarves, go to this type of demonstration”, she insists. La France insoumise and Europe Écologie-Les Verts are calling for people to join these processions planned for Saturday September 23 in Paris, Marseille and Lyon.