Macronist MP Karl Olive pleaded this Sunday for sending soldiers to certain neighborhoods affected by drug trafficking to provoke “a real shock in this country“.
“I think we should also test the mix between the national police, the municipal police and the military, to send a real shock to this country when there are such tragedies.“, declared the Yvelines elected official on Radio J.
“We could very well test“this measure”in political districts of the city, for example in Marseille but why not also in Poitiers“, where a 15-year-old boy died this Saturday after a shooting that occurred Thursday evening.
“There would be a real message sent. Zero tolerance“, insisted Karl Olive, for whom the military, who are not “not here to make up the numbers“, must “be able to flush out weapons stashes” For example.
“Why don't we try? At some point, these people (the traffickers, editor’s note) don’t respect us. They are ruining the lives of the vast majority of French people who simply want to live well together. We have no gifts to give these people“, he insisted.
Samia Ghali: “If people want to shoot in cities, we need soldiers to fight back”
In an interview published in our columns on April 28, 2003, the deputy mayor of Marseille Samia Ghali (DVG) had already mentioned this measure in the face of the increase in fatal shootings in the Marseille city. “We need Sentinel operations and soldiers who rotate through all the cities. And if people want to shoot, well, they will shoot back. We are on the same level as terrorism: when a madman shoots people with a Kalashnikov, the army can shoot and kill. The State must defend residents against those who want to take advantage“, she declared.
