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Violence in Dijon: Laurent Nuñez promises, "an extremely firm response"
Paris Match/Pub. June 16, 2020 at 15:27- Updated June 16, 2020 at 15:34
Caption below photo (Paris Match):Police out in number at Dijon this Tuesday in the Grésilles quarter
Dolidze Sabrina/SIPA
The Secretary of State to the Interior Minister, Laurent Nuñez, promised Tuesday, "an extremely firm response" to the incidents that have rocked Dijon these past days and announced a new reinforcement of more than 150 police officers mobilized for the coming night.
"I want to send a very clear message to the thugs that we have seen exhibiting weapons, to the individuals who came to commit violence here in Dijon: Our response will be extremely firm," he said leaving the police station.
Tuesday evening, "there will be in Dijon two mobile police units," of about 150 officers and troops of the Gendarmerie, in addition to the local forces, he added, noting that "they will be present as many times as needed."
The secretary of state also said that he is "very proud of the actions of the police since Friday, saluting their "courage" and "determination". "The police did not hold back. That is completely incorrect!"
In line with the speech of Emmanuel Macron Sunday night, Mr Nuñez reaffirmed that the police were for him, "the guarantors of our republican order," within a context of defiance and demonstrations in France and the entire world against police violence.
Punitive Expeditions
For four nights, Dijon has been plagued by tensions in a city rarely accustomed to this kind of trouble. Everything began on 10 June with the attack of an adolescent from the Chechen community. Punitive expeditions, "completely unprecedented", were then carried out this weekend in the center of the city and the sensitive quarter of Grésilles by members of this (Chechen) community, and the proprietor of a pizzeria was seriously wounded by (gunfire).
After three nights of violence, on Monday evening, the police dispersed a group of hooded and visibly armed men wanting to defend their quarter against these intrusions. "I understand that the population has been traumatized by these events." The people of Dijon have the "right to peace, tranquility and safety, " insisted Laurent Nuñez, in making it understood that the investigation was in progress. "There are leads," he assured.
Monday evening, the prefect of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Bernard Schmeltz, had defended the police strategy of non-intervention over the course of the weekend to AFP (Agence France Presse). "Supervise and surround to prevent abuses: that is the only practical strategy". That did not prevent the outgoing Socialist mayor of Dijon, François Rebsamen, from denouncing the lack of police measures, faced with some 200 Chechens, armed with iron bars, baseball bats, and sometimes, firearms.
"Since justice comes too late and since the police don't have the means of action, the Chechen community came itself to enforce its right," the mayor analyzed, campaigning for a 4th term.
Christian Jacob has written a letter to the prime minister
The president of the Republicans, Christian Jacob, wrote a letter Tuesday to the prime minister to ask him to "reaffirm without ambiguity," his support for the police and "to finally take strong measures in the face of the explosion of violence in several quarters."
"These unbearable images, from Dijon to Nice, against a backdrop of deleterious community, show hooded individuals, carrying heavy weapons, spreading terror, and imposing their law, with great impunity," states Mr Jacob in this letter to Edouard Philippe, of which the AFP has obtained a copy.
At the hour when our country is going through an unprecedented crisis, we cannot add a climate mixing division to chaos," he added, when the city of Dijon is shaken with tensions against a backdrop of punitive expeditions since the weekend.
A shootout in a quarter of Nice plagued by drug traffic caused three injuries in the night of Sunday to Monday, a few hours after other incidents with knives and guns. Mr Jacob deplores the "silence" of the prime minister, who, according to him, "sounds like an admission of guilty impotence." "You must reaffirm without ambiguity your full support for our police," he adds.
After three nights of violence, on Monday evening, the police dispersed a group of hooded and visibly armed men wanting to defend their quarter against these intrusions. "I understand that the population has been traumatized by these events." The people of Dijon have the "right to peace, tranquility and safety, " insisted Laurent Nuñez, in making it understood that the investigation was in progress. "There are leads," he assured.
Monday evening, the prefect of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Bernard Schmeltz, had defended the police strategy of non-intervention over the course of the weekend to AFP (Agence France Presse). "Supervise and surround to prevent abuses: that is the only practical strategy". That did not prevent the outgoing Socialist mayor of Dijon, François Rebsamen, from denouncing the lack of police measures, faced with some 200 Chechens, armed with iron bars, baseball bats, and sometimes, firearms.
"Since justice comes too late and since the police don't have the means of action, the Chechen community came itself to enforce its right," the mayor analyzed, campaigning for a 4th term.
Christian Jacob has written a letter to the prime minister
The president of the Republicans, Christian Jacob, wrote a letter Tuesday to the prime minister to ask him to "reaffirm without ambiguity," his support for the police and "to finally take strong measures in the face of the explosion of violence in several quarters."
"These unbearable images, from Dijon to Nice, against a backdrop of deleterious community, show hooded individuals, carrying heavy weapons, spreading terror, and imposing their law, with great impunity," states Mr Jacob in this letter to Edouard Philippe, of which the AFP has obtained a copy.
At the hour when our country is going through an unprecedented crisis, we cannot add a climate mixing division to chaos," he added, when the city of Dijon is shaken with tensions against a backdrop of punitive expeditions since the weekend.
A shootout in a quarter of Nice plagued by drug traffic caused three injuries in the night of Sunday to Monday, a few hours after other incidents with knives and guns. Mr Jacob deplores the "silence" of the prime minister, who, according to him, "sounds like an admission of guilty impotence." "You must reaffirm without ambiguity your full support for our police," he adds.
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