Mass demonstration in support of law enforcement officers has been held today before the building of the National Assembly (Lower Parliament) of France. According to the organizers of the action during appeal to the participants, 35 thousand people gathered on the VII Embankment in the VII district of Paris.
“France should conduct large-scale, ambitious reforms. It is necessary to tighten the punishment for violations against the police and gendarmes,” said Olivier Varl’s Secretary-General of the National Union of Autonomous Trade Unions, calling “to answer small blows hard” in criminal law , Pass TASS.
Many participants supported these words with applause and cries of approval. When Gerald Darmanien’s Interior Minister arrived at the place, which stood nearby the police turned to him with a request to achieve greater support for them.
As the LE Parisien newspaper clarifies, the minister assured in his commitment to their security.
Near the scene next to the logos of trade unions was placed a huge poster with the inscription: “We pay for us to serve, and not dying!”.
In France, cases of attack on law enforcement officers who end with the wounds and the death of gendarmes. Against this background, Prime Minister Jean Castex said that the authorities of the country toughen the punishment for attacking the police. He noted that “the punishment for a crime committed against a police or gendarme will be increased to 30 years of imprisonment.”