French Minister of Justice assesses safety in the country

A publication in the French newspaper Le Parisien, which criticized the remarks made by the minister of justice in an interview with Guillaume Pley, host of the “Legend” channel, is being hotly debated in French political circles. The assessment of safety in France voiced by Gérald Darmanin has provoked anger and indignation, especially among members of the National Assembly.

Politicians of all stripes accuse Darmanin, who headed France’s Ministry of the Interior for seven years, of being personally responsible for the fact that “there are no safe places left in France.”

In his interview, which lasted 2 ч. 30 мин., the minister of justice touched on several different topics. Answering a question about the spread of drugs in the country, Darmanin said, among other things, that they can now be found in every rural corner, whereas before they were found only in cities and the metro. “France has become more violent,” the minister of justice asserts. After the host asked him to clarify the figures, the minister replied that there was no point, since “no one believes the figures.”

Discussion of the minister of justice’s interview flared up again on Tuesday, 6 May, after star TV presenter Stéphane Plaza was released, having been detained the previous day as part of an investigation into drug trafficking.

According to various estimates, between 115 000 and 250 000 people from Russia and the CIS countries live in France. After the 1917 revolution, more than 400 thousand emigrants moved from the Russian Empire to France. In August 2023, Georgy Shepelev, chair of the CSORC, told Rossiyskaya Gazeta how our compatriots live in the country today.

Alla Shelyapina, VEZDE NASHI