Darmanin replies to Le Pen who accuses the police of Beauvau of having exfiltrated the environmental activist – The HuffPost

PRESIDENTIAL – After an environmental activist was dragged to the ground for brandishing a photo showing Marine Le Pen with Vladimir Poutine, this Wednesday, April 13, the candidate of the National Rally for the presidential election accused “Mr. Darmanin’s police officers” for the brutality of the evacuation. The Minister of the Interior insisted on answering him. “Rather be honest enough to say that the individual dragging the demonstrator on the ground is a member of your private order service”, assured Gérald Darmanin on Twitter, denouncing the “contempt for the police officers of the Republic who ensure [la] protection” by Marine Le Pen. What contempt for the police officers of the Republic who ensure your protection.
Instead, have the honesty to say that the individual dragging the protester on the ground is a member of your private order service. https://t.co/yg4FeT5gBe— Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) April 13, 2022According to information from BFMTV, the man, who drags the activist from the Ibiza collective to the ground, is part of the candidate’s private order service far right. “For having done a lot of meetings [de Marine Le Pen]this gentleman with the white beard is not a policeman from the Ministry of the Interior, he is a member of what is called the DPS, which is […] the particular order service of the RN”, advances the journalist Benjamin Duhamel. “These are Mr. Darmanin’s police officers, you have to contact Mr. Darmanin, because I have nothing to do with it”, assured Marine Le Pen on BFMTV, questioning the “protection services of personalities”. “It’s not me who gives them instructions or instructions on the method of intervention,” she continued. Marine Le Pen said she had “seen nothing” The RN candidate said she had ” saw nothing” of the incident, and was “joyed that this woman had no more dangerous intentions than those only to challenge me”. The activist, environmental municipal councilor of Boulogne-Billancourt, had brandished a sign in the shape of a heart with a photo of Marine Le Pen and Vladimir Poutine, before being quickly knocked down by two men, then pulled by the arms by one of them and dragged on the ground out of the room, during the press conference, devoted to international issues, of the candidate. “We just wanted to remind you that Marine Le Pen’s diplomacy is to be complacent with dictators […], said the activist at the microphone of BFMTV. And to remember that she had long been a strong partner of Vladimir Putin”. During the press conference, a young man also from the Ibiza collective, presenting himself as a journalist for Russia Today, also ironically asked the candidate “a from Vladimir Putin”: “Why don’t you answer him anymore? He misses you”. Marine Le Pen, regularly implicated for her acquaintances with the Kremlin, had dismissed this “provocateur”. See also on The HuffPost: In Strasbourg, Emmanuel Macron’s meeting disrupted by incidents