Jean-Luc Melenchon, who defended Tuesday, June 7, his controversial tweets about a “police killings” police force following the death of a Parisian passenger killed in police fire. He promised, if he were Prime Minister, to “change the doctrine of the police use of force”.
When asked about France-Inter, he said: “Obviously.” It is my responsibility to do so. Are you sure I don’t write this way out of disinterest?
He explained that his initial tweet had “not received any response” and that he “raised tone”. Thus, “I get the things I want: thousands hear that at least one person in the country, a politician, does not accept that the evolution of police force is being defined by the political power it commands”, he said.
He insisted, “I want to discuss it.” He said, “We have four deaths in four month for refusing to comply” and asked “What were they accusing [the deceased girl] of to point to shooting her down.”
He also dismissed criticisms from the right and within government ranks, saying that they came from “politicians all the way to the right or far left”.
He said, “Anticop”, “I’ve never been”, and defended himself by saying: “I oppose the disproportionate use violence.”
“If you vote in my favor, I will amend the doctrine regarding the use of police force in this country. I believe it is wrong that someone is killed because they refuse to comply in a country that “the death penalty doesn’t exist.”
He called for “republican officers” and again attacked the “factious behaviour” of members of “politico union organizations” that police police “politicos” who “protest against injustice”, warning them that they would be fired if they continued to do so if he were prime minister.
He said, “If I am Prime Minister,” adding that he would reform the police from basement to attic. He pleaded for “a police force of peacekeepers, a police community police, a lot judicial police to run after drug and human traffickers and between the forces to protect the right of protest.”
Jean-Luc Melenchon, in two tweets posted Saturday and Sunday, denounced “a police force (which) kills”, convicted of applying the “death penalty for refusing to comply” as well as “an unacceptable use of power”. “The prefect approves?” The minister congratulates Shame on you, when? He also attacked the Alliance union that defended civil servants, which he called a “factious group”.
