“Did you come with your Kärcher?” : the soft response of Valérie Pécresse, insulted in On est en direct

Words that caused a lot of reaction … Questioned by the Provence this week, Valérie Pécresse had declared, using an expression used by Nicolas Sarkozy when he was Minister of the Interior: “I’ll take the Kärcher out of the cellar. It has been ten years and now is the time to use it. It is about bringing order to the streets.“Guest ofWe are live, it is in front of Laurent Ruquier and Léa Salamé that she explained: “The goal was above all that the democratic debate to which the French are entitled not to be obscured by all this media noise around the words of the President of the Republic, who obviously wants to hide this electoral campaign, wants us to talk only about the health crisis and especially not about security, especially not about the daily problems that the French are experiencing.“

Laurent Ruquier then asked the right-wing candidate: “Did you not use this sentence to appeal to Nicolas Sarkozy, who seems very silent on your candidacy?“To which the latter replied:”No, I spoke about the Kärcher again, because I feel accountable for all the promises that the right has made and that we must now keep: to bring back security everywhere and for everyone in the country; put an end to these lawless areas, in which like in Cavaillon where I was on Thursday, where young dealers aged 12-13 start at 100 euros per day by watching out for them, and then several thousand euros per day, then they don’t go to work because in the end you earn a lot better a living that way, and then they end up in gangs who shoot each other with Kalashnikovs … It is this drift that I want to put an end to, and we have not tried everything against insecurity.“

Valérie Pécresse: “There was a very strong expectation that was made to the right to restore security and order”

Invited in the show, Le Noiseur challenged Valérie Pécresse by asking her: “I was wondering if you came with your Kärcher?“Faced with the singer, the right-wing candidate replied:”No, I came with another lethal weapon: an emergency plan to save the justice of our country, and then the desire also that in ten years, there will be no more ghetto neighborhoods in France and that they be rebuilt, that there be social diversity, that there be success and that we put security there.“Le Noiseur relaunched it by adding:”The Kärcher, I think it had already been violent with Nicolas Sarkozy, I find it a shame to bring it out again.“To conclude this exchange, Valérie Pécresse added:”Well you see, you are different from Léa Salamé who she thinks that you have to turn up the volume when you do politics. On the Kärcher, there was a very strong expectation that was made to the right to restore security and order, and I this expectation, I want to respond to it, and that is my message.“

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