The right and the far right, exasperated by urban violence, compete in calls for firmness in the face of urban violence, questioning an executive “totally overwhelmed” on the sovereign.
The Elysée announced on Friday that President Emmanuel Macron was ready, “without taboo”, to change the security system, shortly before the start of an interministerial crisis unit.
Before this meeting where “all the hypotheses”, according to Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, are on the table, the expectations of the right are clear.
“We ask for the establishment of a curfew first, and then of a state of emergency and the mobilization of all the means of security in our country”, declared Friday the vice-president RN of the National Assembly Sebastien Chenu.
A notable hardening of your tone, since the day before again the vice-president of RN Jordan Bardella preferred to kick into touch, certainly considering that it was not necessary “to exclude anything”, but that he did not have “the information available to Gérald Darmanin “, the minister of the Interior.
A night of urban violence later the tone changed: “We are calling for” this state of emergency “because today the violence has taken on such a scale that we must act immediately”, launched Mr. Chenu.
Many cities in the Paris region and in the provinces woke up on Friday with the stigmata of a new night of violence, the third since the death Tuesday in Nanterre of Nahel, 17, killed by a police officer.
By delaying, the RN appeared to be set back from the Republicans and Reconquest, who compete in firmness on the regal to seduce their electorate.
LR president Eric Ciotti reiterated his request for a state of emergency on Friday, deploring that “the most total anarchy reigns in the country”.
He had demanded the day before that this state of emergency be imposed “without delay” and “everywhere where incidents have broken out”, and strongly questioned the radical left which, according to him, “clearly called for a riot” .
A notch higher in indignation, the president of Reconquête Eric Zemmour, the first to plead for a state of emergency, called on Friday for a “ferocious repression” against the perpetrators of the violence, described as the beginnings of a ” civil war”.
Evoking an “ethnic” or “racial war”, Eric Zemmour drew a parallel with the riots of 2005: “it’s worse”, he assured, because the some 40,000 police forces deployed during the night “are exceeded” and have according to him “orders not to go into contact”.
From Wednesday afternoon, Jordan Bardella went to the Gennevilliers police station (Hauts-de-Seine) and Eric Ciotti to Haÿ-les-Roses (Val-de-Marne), to the scene of nighttime damage.
Because this outbreak of violence is also an opportunity for the right to assert its intransigence on questions of authority and order, seen as the weak point of the head of state.
Emmanuel Macron “seems to us completely overwhelmed” and he “did not take the measure of the gravity of the situation”, estimated Mr. Chenu.
“You must, Elisabeth Borne, restore order without trembling”, launched the boss of the LR deputies Olivier Marleix on Twitter.
The right was indignant at the first statements of Emmanuel Macron, who had deemed “inexcusable” and “inexplicable” the conditions of the death of the young driver.
Words “probably premature” for Eric Ciotti. Jordan Bardella felt that the head of state had “stepped out of his role” by throwing “discredit on the entire police institution”.
But at the RN as at LR, the most virulent criticism is aimed at the radical left, accused by Eric Ciotti of bearing “a very heavy responsibility” with a “political project of civil war”.
“I take Mr. Mélenchon for a public danger,” assured Jordan Bardella.
During the night of Thursday to Friday, the police carried out 875 arrests, announced the Ministry of the Interior.
06/30/2023 13:26:04 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
