“We must be intractable on the merits,” added the head of state this Wednesday during the Council of Ministers.
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AThen several state agents recently lost their lives in tragic conditions, Emmanuel Macron denounced an upsurge in violence, comparing it to “a process of decivilization”. “No violence is legitimate, whether verbal or against people”, he declared, this Wednesday, in the Council of Ministers, according to a participant in the meeting. “You have to be intractable on the merits,” hammered the head of state, adding that he wanted to “work in depth to counter this process of decivilization”.
This expression is intended to be a “questioning of society” on itself, because “the politician is not the only one responsible”, further explained a close friend of the head of state quoted by The Parisian. Even if the violence, against elected officials or public officials, is not always of the same nature, Emmanuel Macron stressed that there was “no violence that is justifiable, ever, in a society, whatever the cause “.
Government spokesperson Olivier Véran expressed concern, the day after the death of a nurse at the Reims University Hospital, of the absence of “restriction, ability to respect the person who saves people’s lives and of oneself”. A minute of silence, in the presence, in Paris, of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, was observed in all hospitals in France in memory of this nurse, Carène Mezino, killed by a man suffering from psychiatric disorders.
Tribute to the police officers killed
“Let us ask ourselves about a society in which the people who treat, who take care, the people who wear the blouse, the people who devote their days, their nights, to preserving the health of others see themselves threatened. There is no longer even this limit, this restriction, the ability to respect the person who saves people’s lives and themselves, ”Mr. Véran told the press after the Council of Ministers.
Emmanuel Macron is due to go to Roubaix (North) on Thursday to pay tribute to three young police officers killed in a collision on Sunday with a vehicle whose driver was heavily alcoholic and under the influence of drugs.
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Left-wing parties called, for their part, for a large rally on Wednesday in Saint-Brevin-les-Pins to support the resigning mayor of this commune of Loire-Atlantique, who has become the symbol of local elected officials who are victims of violence.