Maintaining order in the crosshairs. While criticism of French police violence, already formulated during the mobilization against pension reform, resurfaces at the UN and in Europe, two new cases arise. During the night from Saturday to Sunday, a 27-year-old man died in Marseille, probably the victim of a “flash-ball type” projectile shot, according to the prosecution. In Meurthe-et-Moselle, another young man was seriously injured in the head on Friday during a Raid intervention, when he was going to “get supplies at the gas pump” according to his family.
In both cases, the IGNP opened an investigation. Heard by the Senate Law Commission, Gérald Darmanin even recognized other cases, while minimizing the facts. “There are only 10 seizures of the IGPN or the IGGN”, declared without further detail the Minister of the Interior. During his hearing, the Minister of the Interior ruled out any change to the law of February 2017 which relaxes, in certain respects, the legal conditions for the opening of fire by the police, in particular in the context of refusals to comply. . “It is not because a police officer does not respect the law that this law must be changed”, argued Gérald Darmanin. “This policeman, who is entitled to the presumption of innocence, clearly did not respect the 2017 law”.
Since the start of the violence on June 27, there have been 3,651 arrests, including 1,366 in Paris and the inner suburbs, according to figures from the Interior Ministry arrested on Wednesday at 6:30 a.m. According to a parliamentary source, the Minister of the Interior will also be heard by the Assembly’s Law Commission on Wednesday July 12 at 3 p.m. A few hours earlier (from 9:30 a.m.) the Assembly’s Laws Committee will also question the heads of the IGPN and the IGGN, a hearing that had been planned before Nahel’s death.