A French mayor and member of the National Assembly (RN) of populist Marine Le Pen has expressed outrage after requiring police protection to attend a wedding following threats by a man recently released from prison.
National Assembly politician Julien Sánchez, the mayor of Beaucaire, condemned French “judicial laxity” on social media, claiming he needed a police escort of about 15 officers to attend a recent wedding safely after receiving threats from a man who had been released. From prison in early summer
“There were about fifteen police officers, including a national police officer, because a man released from prison earlier in the summer decided to terrorize the Guard and the residents of different communities in Bouches-du-Rhône,” Sanchez said, according to France’s broadcaster Bleu. Report.
According to Sánchez, the man in question is involved in shooting a man in Tarascon and attacking several people in Nîmes, Bagnols-sur-Sage and Beaucaire. He is even said to have fired a Kalashnikov rifle into a building occupied by a family in Beaucaire, one of whose sons was a groomsman at Sanchez’s wedding.
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“I have a question: What is Emmanuel Macron doing? What [Justice Minister] Eric DuPont-Moretti doing? what [Interior Minister] Is Gerald Darmanin doing? […] They are doing nothing. Collect and demand accountability from those who govern us. They are there for this, they owe us security,” he said.
Growing insecurity remains a major problem in France and has been for several years, with a 2017 survey revealing that 59 percent of the French public do not feel safe anywhere in the country, while 69 percent said they believe the police and gendarmerie are understaffed. .
Insecurity and urban violence are so rampant across France that a letter signed by 20 former French generals and 1,000 active duty and ex-soldiers warned that if the government does not act against rising crime and other security problems, the country is at risk of civil war, such as Islamic extremism
“We see, now is no time to delay. Otherwise, tomorrow, civil war will put an end to this growing chaos, and the dead, for whom you will be responsible, will number in the thousands,” the letter said.
After the letter, a poll found that nearly half of French would support military intervention to restore security in France, even if the government of the day did not urge them to do so. Another 86 percent said they believed French law did not apply everywhere within French territory.
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