The president of Reconquest Eric Zemmour said he was in favor on Sunday of a change in legislation to authorize the police to make conditional “tactical contacts” and to crash into a scooter engaged in a rodeo to put an end to it.
A police officer was indicted and placed under judicial supervision, suspected of having struck a scooter with a service car driven by three teenagers, injured in the accident, on April 13 in Paris, then of having modified his version of the facts.
Shortly before midnight, in the 20th arrondissement of the capital, a scooter carrying three minors aged 17, 14 and 13, including one without a helmet, had been chased by a police car before falling.
The former presidential candidate denounced Sunday on BFM TV an “example of semantic reversal” because, according to him, “we make as usual offenders victims and police officers aggressors”.
“One was without a helmet” and, according to Mr. Zemmour, “they were rodeoing, which is prohibited by law, and in addition they are hit and run”, he accused, before admitting that the driver of the scooter was actually the subject of an investigation for “refusal to comply”.
Asked about the method used, Mr. Zemmour is “favorable to what the English have been doing for a few months, what they call tactical contact” which conditionally authorizes the police to hit the vehicle pursued to fight against urban rodeos.
“I am in favor of changing the law and doing like the English,” he insisted, assuring “that in England this kind of activity has decreased drastically”.
“We urge the Paris prosecutor’s office to open an investigation as soon as possible given the extreme seriousness of the remarks which can lead to such serious acts in the street and prosecute Mr. Zemmour”, reacted to AFP Me Arié Alimi, lawyer for the families of the three injured teenagers.
The lawyer announced that he would send the prosecution on Monday a report or a complaint for apology for a crime.
In addition, Mr. Zemmour said he disagreed with the Minister of Education Pap Ndiaye, who said on Friday that there were “phenomena” of police violence, “on which the “General Inspectorate” of the police national (IGPN) “leans”.
“There is etymologically no police violence”, estimated the polemicist, since “the police have the monopoly of legitimate violence”.
“It is not the police who commit violence, we commit violence against the police, that is the main thing today, it is the police who must be defended”, he concluded.
04/23/2023 17:21:43 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
