Aubenas, Tours, Blois, Tourcoing… Night after night, the same scenes of urban guerrilla warfare. “Rodeos and mortar fire resumed”, conceded a few days ago the mayor of Vaux-en-Velin. Victims of ambush, police and firefighters are methodically stoned. This crescendo of violence reached a new level with the fire in a nursery school in Lille. And here it is that yesterday, a policewoman succumbed to a knife attack perpetrated at the police station of Rambouillet. “France is sick of its insecurity,” lamented Darmanin when he took up his post in Beauvau. The finding is not new. “Today, we live side by side, but I fear that tomorrow, we live face to face”, already alarmed Collomb. And now the ghost of Papy Voise hovers again over the presidential election. In 2002, the swollen face of this peaceful retiree had become the symbol of insecurity. Two decades have not made it possible to eradicate this wildness which thrives in the shadow of trafficking, Islamist terrorism and mistrust, while our beautiful souls are straining on semantics. Opinion polls point to this constant concern in vain. The subject only becomes one with the approach of the polls. And yet, the left only approaches it by pinching its nose, denying the working classes of being the first victims of hell in certain neighborhoods. Making the bed of demagogues, this public powerlessness has permanently installed the extreme right at the door of power. From one plague to another. For the Republic, it is the double effect “Kiss Cool”. Pointing to “the sharp increase in violence against people”, Macron confirms the deployment of ten thousand police and gendarmes. Intended to reduce the square of the right, its security partition however omits the vast site of the penal response. But this time, no doubt, insecurity will be one of the keys to the election in 2022.
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