Opposition to the pension reform but also to the “mega-basins” in Sainte-Soline, in Deux-Sèvres … For the past few days, anger has been rising in France and demonstrations are multiplying. Protest movements sometimes enamelled with violence, like Thursday, on the sidelines of the ninth day of mobilization against the pension reform, or this Saturday, when the demonstration against the “mega-basins” quickly turned into a confrontation between demonstrators and force of order, causing injuries on both sides.
“There is a form of Nupesization of the spirits”
Guest of the Grand Rendez-vous d’Europe 1/ Les Échos/ CNews, Éric Zemmour returned to the subject. The president of the Reconquête group said he was “surprised by the impunity not only judicial but media, political [les casseurs, ndlr] benefit. I think we have to be much more severe,” he said.
For him, this violence would be due to a form of “complacency, media complacency, intellectual complacency, political complacency”. “For weeks, I have noticed that it is in the National Assembly, whether in the street, whether in the minds, in the media, on television, what I would call a Nupesisation of the minds”, adds the leader of Reconquest.
“It’s been years now that, with each demonstration at the beginning peaceful, little by little, the thugs, as we said in the 70s, the Black-blocs, as we say today, the antifas, start to rot everything, to smash and attack the cops and risk killing”, underlines the author of I didn’t say my last word. “We must put all the means so that these people are punished.”
“The state has a monopoly on legitimate violence”
While many political figures, such as Jean-Luc Mélenchon, have condemned the police violence committed in recent days, especially this Saturday in Sainte-Soline, for Éric Zemmour: “there is no police violence. “State has a monopoly on legitimate violence and therefore it is the police who have a monopoly on violence. There may be personal abuses which must obviously be punished. But the term is inadequate, there is no of police brutality.”
This Friday, the Council of Europe was alarmed by an “excessive use of force” against protesters against pension reform. The same day, the prefect of police Laurent Nuñez announced that he had seized the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) after the broadcast of an audio recording in which we hear police officers, presented as members of BRAV-M, making insulting and humiliating remarks towards seven young demonstrators whom they had just arrested.