Valérie Pécresse wants to “bring the Kärcher out of the cellar” to “clean up the neighborhoods” – The HuffPost

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THE REPUBLICANS – The LR presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse, who will be in Bouches-du-Rhône and Vaucluse this Thursday, January 6 to talk about security, says she wants to “bring the Kärcher out of the cellar” to “clean up the neighborhoods” and “ restore order to the streets ”.

“I’m going to take the Kärcher out of the cellar. It has been ten years and now is the time to use it. It is a question of putting order in the street ”because“ we no longer give an answer to the violence of the new barbarians ”, declares the candidate of the right. in an interview with Provence published wednesday evening, using an expression used by Nicolas Sarkozy when he was Minister of the Interior and remained in political annals.

Just after the death in June 2005 of an 11-year-old boy in front of his home in La Courneuve (Seine-Saint-Denis), Nicolas Sarkozy went there and announced his desire to “clean up with the karcher” the city of 4000 where the victim lived.

“My political DNA is to do”

“I want to clean up the neighborhoods”, asserts in turn Valerie Pécresse, by proposing to use in particular “punching brigades, including digital means, the tax authorities, but also the army, in order to secure the areas of intervention”.

While Emmanuel Macron is due to go to Nice on Monday on the same theme, she believes that “if he runs after the Republican candidate on this subject, it is good that there is excitement, concern in his camp ”.

“The the same time’ does not step on security. Macron creates a diversion with his sentences, but when the French open their eyes to its record, they will see a crisis of total authority ”, estimates Valérie Pécresse. “We have a president who talks constantly, to insult or to seduce. The French know me less, because I act ”, argues the president of the Île-de-France region.

Security is “the first of freedoms”, affirms the candidate again, using an expression of the National Rally which, according to her, “thrives on public impotence”. “My political DNA is to do”, she insisted.

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