The Minister of Justice defended himself this Thursday evening on BFMTV against the accusations of police custody deemed “abusive”, in particular on the number of classifications without follow-up during the demonstrations against the pension reform.
Guest of BFMTV this Thursday evening, the Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti spoke about the significant number of police custody classified without follow-up during the last demonstrations in Paris against the pension reform.
According to a count made by BFMTV from the figures communicated by the Paris prosecutor’s office, 62.2% of the demonstrators arrested were released without prosecution. Figures deplored Wednesday on BFMTV Dominique Simonnot, the general controller of places of deprivation of liberty, who sent a letter to Gérald Darmanin to alert on a “massive recourse” by the police to arrests and police custody ” preventive”.
“Justice is doing its job”
These arrests do not, however, alarm the Keeper of the Seals, who judges that there is no “abusive” police custody for demonstrators “randomly arrested”, as Dominique Simonnot claimed.
“On the contrary, justice is doing its job, commented Éric Dupond-Moretti on our antenna, before adding: It’s rather reassuring, it means that we are in a state of law.”
According to the former lawyer, the principle of police custody is scrupulously respected during demonstrations from the moment when “there are plausible reasons to suspect” the demonstrators, whether they are subsequently prosecuted or not.
He then took the concrete example from his interview: “If an offense is committed behind the room, we are all in custody, but there will be only one culprit.”
Éric Dupond-Moretti then urged the police not to “be hostile to this judicial filter”. She must call out and “then we sort it out”. “We are still not going to condemn people who have done nothing.”
