Audrey Pulvar on May 11, 2021. – Witt
The Interior Ministry will file a complaint against the PS candidate in the Ile-de-France regional elections, Audrey Pulvar, after her comments about the police. “Madame Pulvar’s words go beyond the simple framework of an electoral campaign and deeply defame the police of the Republic. I am filing a complaint on behalf of the Ministry of the Interior ”,
tweeted the Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin.
The demonstration of tens of thousands of police on Wednesday in front of the National Assembly was judged Saturday “quite chilling” by Audrey Pulvar, head of the Socialist list in the regional elections in Ile-de-France. A demonstration “supported by the extreme right, in which participates a Minister of the Interior, who marches on the National Assembly to pressure the deputies examining a law on justice, it is a image which for me was quite chilling, ”she explained on franceinfo.
Gérald Darmanin at the police gathering in front of the National Assembly: “A rather chilling image”, for Audrey Pulvar, candidate for regional elections in Île-de-Francehttps://t.co/SC4AKko8vs pic.twitter.com/hAtcjKZCxA
– franceinfo (@franceinfo) May 22, 2021
Divisions left
“The anger of the police officers is legitimate, but that it is expressed in this way in front of the National Assembly with a Minister of the Interior (…) to put pressure on his colleague of Justice, I find that extremely worrying and I did not wish to participate ”, also declared the former journalist. “Obviously I support the police,” she said.
This is a complaint for “defamation”, told AFP the entourage of Mr. Darmanin, himself a candidate for regional in Hauts-de-France and departmental in the North.
Many elected LR and RN had participated in this event. The PS mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure, the PCF candidate for the presidential election Fabien Roussel, the MEP ELV Yannick Jadot and other elected officials of the left were also present, on the contrary in particular the leader of LFI Jean-Luc Mélenchon who had described the gathering as “factious”. The subject has revived the divisions on the left since Wednesday.