To denounce the police budget, the Alliance union is organizing a “republican barbecue” before the National Assembly

The majority union among the police intends to put pressure on the deputies to guarantee a budget and invest massively in security.
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The police in disagreement with the budget allocated to them. While the Prime Minister drew article 49.3 to have the budget adopted, civil servants meet in front of the Bourbon Palace, Tuesday, February 4. They respond to a call from the National Police Alliance Syndicate to organize a “republican barbecue” to share their dissatisfaction. Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau came to meet the demonstrators.
Four years ago, the climate was almost insurrectionary during a previous demonstration of alliance before the Assembly, with this shock sentence: “The police problem is justice!” The atmosphere on Tuesday is good for this gathering. At the gallery before a tide of flags and under the gaze of the Minister of the Interior who came to demonstrate his support in silence. “There is a sentence that you know a lot but I will not quote itdeclares Fabien Vanhemelryck, the secretary general of Alliance. The police problem is that she runs, she wear out, that she stumbles while the politician tramples. The police problem is budgetary abandonment. We demand a amending finance law or otherwise we will come back. “
The police had already put a first pressure on the Minister of the Interior on January 8. During the wishes of the National Police Alliance Union, its general secretary Fabien Van Hemelryck, standing next to Bruno Retailleau and in front of an audience of white -heated delegates, sends a message: “You know me, Mr. Minister, I will not go by four paths: if the budget is not up to the respect and consideration of the police, we will be in the street!” The Minister of the Interior responds when he wins this fight.
The entourage of Bruno Retailleau explains that, according to the latest text, the police budget must increase by 250 million euros in 2025. It is not enough for the Alliance union and its national delegate Éric Henry: “The 2025 budget is a trompe-l’oeil budget. It increases slightly, but clearly insufficiently. The budget must be considerably increased if we want to give ways to deal with security issues. And there, we are Far from the account.
Debts of 2024 are to be moped, with in particular the mission of Mayotte which was very consumer in budget, according to the union. These are some of the reasons that prompted the union to organize a rally in front of the National Assembly at the end of the morning on Tuesday for what it calls a “republican barbecue”, to which all the deputies invite, except those of Insoumise France.