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Violence in Dijon: “an unbearable reality” for Édouard Philippe

The violence of the past few days in the Grésilles district of Dijon has reacted the whole political class. While Laurent Nunez, Secretary of State to the Minister of the Interior, is present in Dijon this Tuesday, and that the president of the National Rally Marine Le Pen is expected in the afternoon, the city of the dukes was mentioned until the National Assembly, during the session of questions to the government.

In response to Valérie Lacroute, deputy Les Républicains de Seine-et-Marne who, qualifying Emmanuel Macron’s speech on Sunday as “satisfied with a president already campaigning for 2022”, and providing support to the police who take to the streets, Prime Minister Édouard Philippe spoke of the tense context that the city of the dukes is experiencing as well as the city of Nice.

“It is not the images that are unbearable, it is the reality that is unbearable. We have seen the eminent role once again of the police. Security forces that we all support and that we let’s say they would be, in the current circumstances, singularly destitute if they were disarmed. What is a baroque idea which ultimately cannot prosper, we know.

A barely veiled reference to Jean-Luc Mélenchon who had mentioned, on Saturday, during the demonstration against police violence, the need to have a police force “as disarmed as possible so that it inspires respect among citizens”.

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