LA “more violent” France than before. Gérald Darmanin returned to the most significant events of his political career in a long interview with the Legend online media broadcast on YouTube on Sunday, May 4. He addresses questions about security, police, prisons or crime. According to the Minister of Justice, the French are marked by the prevalence of drugs and the increased violence in France, who have “metastasized”, touching the French “everywhere” and “all the time”.
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“It is clear today that the slightest small rural town knows cocaine and cannabis,” he deplored. “Before, drugs, it was simply in big cities or in the metro. “However, he specifies not to want to reveal data:” The figures no one believes them so it is not worth discussing it. »»
Paranoia on technology
“There are no more” safe “places” [« sûrs », NDLR] In France, added the Keeper of the Seals, while saying to be optimistic to reverse this trend thanks to technology. He explains wanting to set up facial recognition, after using artificial intelligence during the 2024 Olympic Games which had allowed the cameras to “watch the crowd movements, to recognize bizarre behaviors”.
To guarantee better security, Gérald Darmanin would like to use facial recognition as in Dubai or Singapore. “In France, there is a paranoia on technology, public freedoms, the issue of files,” he explains during the 2 h 30 of interview. A media presence that makes sense when the question of ambitions for the 2027 presidential election is addressed: “Do I think of the presidential election?” The answer is yes. »»
