The Green MEP denounces an “Americanization” of the police and the “complacency” of the government.
A union that “openly flirts with the far right”. Two days after the death of Nahel, in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), the European deputy Europe Écologie-Les Verts (EELV) Yannick Jadot charges Alliance, “present in all police stations”. “There is undeniably the desire for Americanization” police, “in the sense that the police want to get out of the republican framework of maintaining order and do justice themselves”. A dynamic “including carried by the Alliance union”, he says Thursday, June 29 on franceinfo.
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The union reacted strongly to Emmanuel Macron’s remarks, after the 17-year-old young man was killed by a police officer following a refusal to comply. “Inexplicable” And “inexcusable”for the Head of State. “It is inconceivable that the President of the Republic, like certain political leaders, artists or others, flout the separation of powers and the independence of justice by condemning our colleagues even before it is pronounced”retorts Alliance.
Too much complacency from the government
Yannick Jadot does not stop there. “You have police officers who say: ‘I cannot complain about the racist behavior of a colleague to my hierarchy, because I know that in this hierarchy, there is the Alliance union which will make me go find myself in difficulty professionally”, he assures. By the way, he also attacks Gérald Darmanin. According to him, Alliance “defines” her “position”.
“There is too much complacency from the Minister of the Interior, that is to say from this government, vis-à-vis the unacceptable behavior that there is also in the police”adds MEP EELV. “I will never say ‘the police kill’, I do not say ‘the police are racist’, I say: ‘there is police violence in the police, there is racism in the police'”, he adds. The police “is not there to protect a way of thinking the police which is no longer republican, the police are there to protect the citizens”.