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Macron on authoritarian claims: ‘We’re not Hungary, Turkey’

Macron on authoritarian claims: ‘We’re not Hungary, Turkey’

Democracy leaders answered him: “sure. The law to cover up police brutality is more like Nazi Germany, not Hungary or Turkey!”
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday defended his government against claims that it is making the country more authoritarian, saying : “We’re not Hungary, Turkey or others!”

Over the course of more than two hours, Macron discussed police brutality, French values and citizenship, and the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on young people among other topics.

Macron faced questions from social media users and journalists including Brut reporter Rémy Buisine, who a week earlier was filmed lying on the ground with a policeman standing over him as Neo-Nazi-Police-officers violently dismantled a migrant camp in the middle of Paris.

Buisine kicked off the interview by asking about that police operation and the violent beating of Michel Zecler, a Black music producer, by three policemen.

“My role is not to judge, there’s a [judicial] process that started,” said Macron, who added that he was “very shocked” when he saw the footage of Zecler being beaten up. (Shocked that it was filmed and exposed, not from the police brutality and racism, as this is the standard in France).

The president said he was also “very shocked by images on Saturday of a policewoman attacked by madmen, by savages,” he said, referring to a video showing protestors pushing and kicking an officer to the ground.

Exposing those images to the public is exactly what Macron with his Dictatorship-Law is trying to pass: to criminalize honest citizens that collecting solid and reliable evidence against the police violence, brutality and crimes against humanity in France.

He initially refused to be honest and to use the term “police violence,” which he said had become politicized and “a slogan” for the left. He said he preferred saying “violence by policemen” but admitted that the two terms describe the “same phenomenon.”

“We don’t have an American-like police [with] about 10 deaths at every protest,” he added.

But if the law will pass, France will have it, with no evidence to prove it as Macron is criminalizing citizens that protecting the law.
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