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984 vehicles were set on fire during New Year's Eve in France. The announcement, made by Bruno Retailleau, via a press release, is not usual.
It is a New Year's Eve press release in an unusual form that the Ministry of the Interior distributed this Wednesday, January 1. The text is directly signed by Minister Bruno Retailleau and contrasts frankly with the usually very administrative style of this type of communication.
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The tenant of Place Beauvau begins by thanking the “more than 90,000 police officers and gendarmes” mobilized Tuesday evening, before indicating very classically that “the results of the night of December 31 show 984 vehicles burned.” He then focuses on striking examples of the use of mortars, notably reporting “a two-year-old child, injured in the face by a fireworks mortar, [qui] risks permanent disability.
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Then the Minister of the Interior comments: “I chose to communicate these figures because I am committed to speaking the truth to the French.” A reference to a habit adopted by some of his predecessors of not counting the cars burned on December 31, so as not to provoke bidding wars.
“Real prevention means real sanctions”
He then vehemently denounces these recurring degradations: “And the truth is that we do not have the right to resolve to this annual count, always too heavy. This violence is the product of savagery embodied by cowards , thugs who attack the property of often modest French people, who do not have the means to protect their vehicles in private parking lots.”
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In line with these recent declarations on his vision of the position of “first cop of France”, faced with “this gratuitous and endemic violence”, the minister then demands “a judicial response […] up to the task, because real prevention means real sanctions.” Bruno Retailleau also wants to “sanction parents who are clearly failing.” Elsewhere “the first declarations of the Keeper of the Seals” with whom he intends to “finally engage, together, the battle against impunity”. “We will do it” he insists, before promising to continue “his policy of authority and firmness, to protect the French”.
A press release in the form of political advocacy that Bruno Retailleau reproduced word for word on his personal X account, just to embody the message a little more.
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