AFP
Macron’s visit to the Salon turns into chaos, with outdated services
Never in the memory of police officers and farmers had the Agricultural Show seen, for the arrival of a head of state, CRS and mobile gendarmes clashing with demonstrators in its very enclosure, giving the The image of immense chaos. The context of great anger among farmers foreshadowed a complicated visit on Saturday for the president. But from there to imagine police forces in helmets and shields in hand trying to contain angry farmers, never. “Never have I seen that,” the national secretary of the Alliance of CRS and CRS told AFP. former head of security groups for the president and prime minister, Johann Cavallero. “When it comes to this, it means that the situation is out of control,” believes this former police officer. – “Lack of anticipation” –And yet, noted an expert on visits by high-ranking personalities to the Salon, “ It was no surprise this anger, exacerbated by the invitation of the Earth Uprisings to the presidential debate. “This lack of anticipation is incomprehensible.” Usually, mobile forces are deployed around the Show grounds. “This is the protocol for the head of state”, it is also the case for other political figures such as the Prime Minister, confirmed Mr. Cavallero. Everything went wrong shortly after 8:00 a.m., while Emmanuel Macron was in a room on the 1st floor of the Porte de Versailles exhibition center with agricultural union representatives. At that time, farmers from the FNSEA and the Rural Coordination forced open the entrance gates to the living room. Gates guarded by the Salon’s private security, as Mr. Cavallero and two police sources assured AFP. “For several years, the responsibility for guarding the gates has been entrusted to private security personnel,” said the CRS Alliance manager. Four CRS companies had been mobilized since 6:00 a.m. around the Exhibition Center. And two others came as reinforcements in the morning. There were also mobile gendarme companies. Two forces which are used to working together in law enforcement operations. order inside. And there arose a problem of coordination between the forces,” analyzes Mr. Cavallero. On Saturday, there were plainclothes police officers from the Paris police headquarters, police officers from CRS 8 (the unit specializing in operations to combat urban and other violence), CRS, mobile gendarmes, forces of order on horseback…”The CRS were prohibited from using tear gas because of the animals”, several members of the police told AFP. Nevertheless, farmers reported on news channels the very brief use of tear gas. – “Paroxysmal” – For several hours, intermittently, there were farmers violently pushing the police who they themselves strongly pushed them away, in the middle of panicking animals. “It’s a pushover. We can’t do anything else in a closed environment such as the Salon,” explained the police unionist, adding that if the police officers had put on their helmets, it was to protect themselves from the various projectiles thrown by the farmers (clods of earth, eggs, etc.). Furthermore, never had an inauguration of the Salon by a head of state taken place more four hours after the scheduled time, with the main hall, that of the animals, closed to the public at the opening. Other presidents had to face whistles, boos and shoving at the Salon, like Nicolas Sarkozy or François Hollande. But the intensity of these was much less. Nicolas Sarkozy lost his temper with a visitor who refused to shake his hand, shouting “get out of it, you bastard”, which remained in his memories. François Hollande had been whistled and booed. Jacques Chirac, for his part, was like a fish in water in this universe. “Saturday, the tension was at a paroxysmal level,” summarized a regular at Salon.sm/mat/hj
2024-02-25 04:20:26
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