Visiting the capital of Gaul, the Minister of the Interior has multiplied criticism of the policy of the ecologist councilor Grégory Doucet, particularly in terms of security.
As he had already indicated in the middle of the week on RTL, Gérald Darmanin, visiting Lyon, declared that some 3,000 “delinquent alienswere expelled in two years from the national territory. “At the request of the President of the Republic, over the past two years, 3,000 delinquent foreigners have been expelled“, said the Minister of the Interior during a press briefing at the Rhône prefecture, without specifying the nationalities or the alleged facts.
“This is an unprecedented increase (…) and we must continue to do so“, added the tenant of Place Beauvau, visiting the capital of Gaul to inaugurate an administrative detention center (CRA) open since January and announce the opening of a second center for early 2023, which will increase the number places available in the agglomeration to 280.
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The Minister also mentioned his wish to proceed with the return to “legislative changesabout eviction procedures. “From January, when a police officer arrests a foreigner in an irregular situation, he will be able to put him in the CRA (Administrative detention center, Editor’s note) for three months to find a way to deport him to his country“, he said.
Saturday afternoon, Gérald Darmanin spoke with residents of La Guillotière, a popular district in the center of Lyon. He also met the three police officers who had been attacked in this district on the evening of July 20, when they were trying to arrest a person suspected of theft, in the middle of a crowd who violently attacked them.
Gregory Doucet absent
In addition, Friday evening, a Bac policeman was hit and dragged by a man on a scooter refusing to comply. The suspect, who was alcoholic, was arrested and taken into custody. The police officer has four days of temporary interruption of work.
During his visit, the minister multiplied the criticisms of the policy of the environmentalist mayor of Lyon Grégory Doucet, in particular in terms of security. The latter, who came to La Guillotière on Friday, made it known that he would not attend the ministerial trip: “it’s not a minister we need but more staff“, he tweeted Friday, asking for 300 net national police more.
Gérald Darmanin, who proposes to meet the mayor in September, insisted that he “there were more than 100 police“additional in Lyon”since I became a minister“, a “new permanent CRS” as well as “200 PAF police officers(border police) which will arrive in January 2023.