Comments on the police: Emmanuel Macron says “not to accept” that we “insult” the police, Jean-Luc Mélenchon answers him – CNEWS

From Puycelsi, in the Tarn, the President of the Republic returned this Thursday to the controversy caused by the words of Jean-Luc Mélenchon following the death of a passenger during a refusal to comply, last Saturday in Paris . The Head of State at the bedside of the police. Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that he could not “accept” that “we insult” the gendarmes and police, after the controversy caused by the words of Jean-Luc Mélenchon on “the police who kill”. “There are things that from where I am, I cannot accept, it is that we insult those who risk their lives to protect ours,” said the head of state in a speech. during a safety visit to the Tarn. “For a nation to be united and for the Republic to be standing, we must absolutely defend our gendarmes as well as our police officers”. The presence of law enforcement on public roads doubled During his trip, Emmanuel Macron also announced that the presence of law enforcement on public roads will be doubled “by the end of the decade”. “This deployment of our gendarmerie will be part of the commitment I have made, which is to double, by the end of the decade, the presence of our police forces on the public highway”, he said. -he says. “To double, that is to say, to put more police and gendarmes on the ground as close as possible to you to fight against delinquency and prevent it, to help eradicate intra-family violence and violence against women”, he said. -he explains. The number of law enforcement reservists will also be doubled. “200 gendarmerie brigades will thus be deployed. This is the choice and the commitment that I made at the national level. They will be there to guarantee a quiet life for any living citizen, in particular, in rural areas, ”announced the Head of State. For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, “no one insulted the police” Shortly after Emmanuel Macron’s speech, the former presidential candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, wanted to react. “I believed for a moment that the remarks he made were a kind of encouragement to a disproportionate and totally ill-adapted use of the police force,” said Jean-Luc Mélenchon. LIVE – Speech by @JLMelenchon in reaction to Emmanuel #Macron’s speech in the Tarn. – #NUPES Follow this live also on Twitch: https://t.co/y0r5kBTfb9Et on YouTube: https://t.co/glgAVZetGy https://t.co/jfMNeZrNkQ – Jean-Luc Mélenchon (@JLMelenchon) June 9 , 2022 “Nobody insulted the police. I took the responsibility with others to denounce an employment doctrine which led to violence at the Stade de France, to the brutalization of passengers at the Gare de l’Est (…) and which, in four months, provoked four dead for refusing to comply,” he added. “Which is the absolute signal of total failure,” he concluded.