A visit gone wrong. While he was traveling in Guadeloupe, Gérald Darmanin took the opportunity to speak to the local media. This Thursday, April 18, the Minister of the Interior went to Baie-Mahault, near Pointe-à-Pitre to answer questions from Guadeloupe 1ère. But upon his arrival at the channel’s premises, the politician was attacked by a man “about twenty years old“, according to a source close to the investigation who spoke to Parisian. Claiming to want to speak to Gérald Darmanin, the individual in question approached him and took advantage of him holding out his hand to grab him by the arm and shoulders. According to witnesses present on site, the former mayor of Tourcoing was not injured during this altercation. He also recorded his interview as planned.
The young man was quickly subdued by the security team of the Minister of the Interior, said The Parisian, adding that the individual has “immediately arrested and placed in police custody“. Since his arrest, an investigation has been opened to “violence against a person holding public authority and rebellion“. According to information collected by the daily, “he wanted to escape and didn’t let it happen.” and showed himself “uncooperative“during his police custody. And the same source specifies that the young man was”hospitalized in psychiatric emergency” from Pointe-à-Pitre University Hospital this Thursday, April 18.
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Last February, Gérald Darmanin spoke about his role within the government, during an interview with Laurence Ferrari, published in the columns of Paris Match. The Minister of the Interior, in office since July 6, 2020, spoke of the fight against delinquency and drug trafficking, which he considers to be carried out despite criticism from the French people most affected by insecurity (homicides and homicide attempts are on the rise), but also his family, or even his functions. Questioned by our colleague about his “pace […] trying“, the person concerned assured that he “deeply loves what[‘il] do[t]“.
And the minister detailed his remarks: “I have a romantic vision of France inspired by my Gaullism as a young activist and by my story as a little Frenchman of mixed blood, whose father was seen as a metic“, affirmed Gérald Darmanin, feeling it necessary to provide details on his origins, which are the reason why he has enjoyed working in government since Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year term: “An Algerian rifleman grandfather, a man who could neither read nor write French at 14 and who is a discreet hero of the Second World War. His military medal was the family honor.“The Minister of the Interior then said to himself “very proud to be useful to France”, recognizing the difficulties he faces in relation to the fears of the population.
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