Gérald Darmanin denounced on Monday the “insults” of Jean-Luc Mélenchon against the police, three of whom are in police custody in Paris for having killed the passenger of a car during a check and seriously injured the driver. “The police kill and the factious group Alliance (police union, editor’s note) justifies the shootings and the death for “refusal to comply”. When is the shame? “tweeted the leader of the Insoumis on Sunday night to Monday, one week before the first round of the legislative elections.
An “unacceptable abuse of power”
“Another unacceptable abuse of power. The death penalty for a refusal to comply. The prefect approves? The minister congratulates? When is the shame?”, He had already written earlier on the same social network. “The police, the gendarmes deserve respect. They do a courageous, difficult job and risk their lives at every moment. Insulting them dishonors those who want to govern. Let the investigations be done without using them as hostages of an electoral campaign” , replied the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin. Marine Le Pen for her part denounced the words “of incredible gravity” by Jean-Luc Mélenchon “a few days before his political retirement”.
The police kill and the rebel group Alliance justifies the shootings and the death for “refusal to comply”. Shame is when?
— Jean-Luc Melenchon (@JLMelenchon) June 5, 2022
“He therefore chooses dishonor by breaking definitively with the values of the French Republic,” added the leader of the National Rally. “These are words unworthy of someone who claims to want to govern France”, reacted for his part Stéphane Le Foll, socialist mayor of Le Mans and former minister of François Hollande. The general delegate of Alliance Frédéric Lagache denounced to AFP “unspeakable remarks” and announced a complaint “tomorrow” (Tuesday).
Three police officers in custody
At the end of the morning on Saturday, three police officers opened fire in the north of Paris on the occupants of a car suspected of having refused to submit to a check and then of having “rushed” at them, according to the account of a police source. The police custody of the three police officers, two men and a woman, auditioned at the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) for “violence with a weapon by a person holding public authority” was extended on Monday, the prosecution said. from Paris.
The driver of the car was briefly placed in police custody at the hospital on Monday for “attempted homicide of persons holding public authority” before the measure was suspended, the 38-year-old man did not being ultimately in no condition to be heard at this stage.