This Sunday, after the violence that punctuated the Parisian procession of May 1, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, and the leader of La France Insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, tore themselves apart by interposed declarations. The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, and the leader of La France Insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, were torn apart on Sunday by statements interposed after the violence which punctuated the Parisian procession of May 1, during which a firefighter who tried to extinguish a fire was attacked. Jean-Luc Mélenchon denounced in a message published on Twitter “the parasitic violence”, but considering that “the prefect (of Paris police Didier Lallement) knew”, and that he was “incapable to guarantee the right to demonstrate in peace”. “The absence of words of support” for the police and the firefighters “is particularly insulting”, replied Gérald Darmanin during a press briefing from the police headquarters. , with particular reference to the aggression n of a firefighter attacked by a woman while trying to put out a fire of pallets lit on the sidelines of the demonstration. “I call on everyone, and in particular Mr. Mélenchon ad hominem, to condemn this violence and to remove any ambiguity that there may be with the ultra left”, again tackled the Minister of the Interior, comparing the leader of LFI to a “firefighter-arsonist” for having, according to him, “conscientiously, for five years, denied the police headquarters the means to better prevent these violent demonstrations”. this firefighter and his courageous colleagues”, considering that “the one who attacks him in this way is a coward and a dirty guy who plays into the hands of all those who want to wither this beautiful May Day full of joy and hope”. The attack also sparked political reactions from Christian Estrosi, close to Emmanuel Macron, according to whom “these thugs must be severely punished”, or LR deputy Eric Ciotti, who denounced a “new surrealist aggression from the far left” by calling for “zero tolerance for those who touch a uniform of the Republic”. The Parisian demonstration of May 1st was also enamelled throughout the course by clashes between thugs and police, damage to street furniture, burning of garbage cans and the ransacking of dozens of banking brands, real estate agencies and insurance companies.