LIVE - Urban violence: Marylise Léon believes “we are paying cash for ten years of verticality”, Sébastien Lecornu will bring together the political parties on Thursday

Less than three days after the arson which ravaged the town hall of Limoges (Haute-Vienne), classified as a historic heritage site, a suspect was arrested Tuesday morning in Val d'Issoire by the Bordeaux RAID, we learned from consistent sources. According to a police source, “He is an ultra-left activist already on S file.”

Aged 40 and originally from Creuse, he is also known to the authorities, in particular for acts of “violence against a person holding public authority”. Contacted, the Limoges prosecutor confirmed the arrest of the suspect.

For Marylise Léon, “the government is taking too long to respond to the demands” of young people, while describing the violence as “unacceptable”. If the general secretary of the CFDT shows her “support for the mobilization of high school students and students”, she adds that “each organization must know how to stay in its place”.

“The movement is far from over, we are calling for November 5 with other union organizations,” emphasizes Marylise Léon. A meeting with the government will be held on Wednesday October 21 but the trade unionist “wants answers and not a lesson in responsibility from the president”. “There is anger, a desire to be considered, respected. We are paying for ten years of verticality, we need real social responses,” she insisted.

The coordinator of La France Insoumise (LFI), Manuel Bompard, announces that he will take the matter to the Court of Justice of the Republic against the Minister of the Interior, after a publication by Mediapart. An article, published yesterday evening, relates the testimony of a commissioner of the intelligence services, who claims “to have been instructed to target the party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon” in the looting.

“It’s absolutely scandalous,” insists the Insoumis. “Making false documents, abusing authority, these are crimes,” he accuses. “There must be investigations carried out. It’s called a state scandal,” said the elected official.

The government says it has obtained “cooperation” from resale platforms like Vinted or Leboncoin, summoned Monday evening after they hosted announcements of receiving stolen products during the looting. “We have signed a charter with them,” assured Trade Minister Serge Papin on Sud Radio, explaining that they have “made traceability commitments” and agreed “if there is any doubt, to notify the authorities immediately.”

“The work is to be done by the platforms, we must put in place moderation,” added the minister, remaining however vague on the concrete commitments obtained from the platforms. “We asked for investigative work with feedback within 48 hours,” he added.

“The evening went well, we had a much calmer night” assured this Tuesday morning Ariel Weil, PS mayor of Paris Centre, where a curfew was deployed last night, following the violence of this weekend. Filtering zones have also been organized.

On BFMTV, the elected official raised the possibility of calling on the army to prevent further looting in the capital on Monday. “I mentioned the idea that we could resort to the army if we had a staffing problem,” he explains at the RMC microphone. “The army is already deployed in Paris, in particular with the sentinel operation” he justifies, proposing that the military could be deployed as a “dissuasive presence” in certain neighborhoods to avoid looting.

Asked about the forms of self-defense that certain traders have resorted to, the city councilor says he understands that “the residents may have had the feeling of having been abandoned”. “I can try to understand those who repelled the attackers,” he continues. “But if people started to arm themselves it would be terrible, it would be that the State had failed,” he warns.

To shed light on the day of October 17, the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, proposed on Sunday the creation of a commission of inquiry. At the conference of presidents at 10 a.m. the way in which “we created it” and “the field that we define together” should be decided. On France Inter, the politician pleads for “that at the end of the year, we can have the results”.

“It is not a question of indicting anyone,” she defended, but “of understanding all the questions that we ask ourselves.” The Yvelines MP, who recognizes “a bankruptcy”, intends to understand the failures “at the intelligence level”, “what happened on social networks”, as well as “the shortage of ammunition”.

To date, 123 people have been incarcerated since the violence that punctuated the demonstrations this weekend, “either in pre-trial detention or because they had committal warrants,” the Minister of Justice announced on Europe 1-CNews. Furthermore, “around fifty judicial inquiries” have been opened, and “still a lot of people” are still in police custody.

“There was a lot of firmness on the part of the public prosecutors. I asked them to be merciless towards those who attacked police officers, gendarmes, firefighters, who looted businesses and attacked public buildings.

“I am not a specialist in maintaining order but clearly the threat has been underestimated,” noted Patrick Martin on RMC this Tuesday morning. For the president of Medef, “the State has failed” in the face of “strange, extremely violent and ultra-determined populations”. “I have seen frightening things, it is unacceptable in our state of law,” he added.

As for the use of weapons or iron bars by traders to defend themselves, Patrick Martin shares his vision: “I understand them but I dissuade them from doing it because we remain attached to the rule of law, we must not fall into the trap of the ultra-left and the black blocs who are waiting for a civil war.” According to him, “it might be necessary to prioritize priorities” in order to “hold out until the presidential election”.

The fall of the burned belfry of the Limoges town hall alone sums up the state of France. With him, it was a bit like the Republic that we had the impression of seeing fall. A Republic where authority is abused, insulted, trampled on by decivilized individuals. A long series of resignations explains this bankruptcy. At school, of course, where the student has replaced the teacher, where effort and demands have become suspect. On public roads, where the police are likened to an enemy gang that prevents drug trafficking and kills. Faced with immigration and its consequences too, today out of control, about which it is forbidden to talk, under penalty of being accused of fascism.

However, it is not enough to be born in Paris, Lyon or Marseille to respect and share the values ​​and culture of our country. Is this the breeding ground of the “new France” sung by Jean-Luc Mélenchon? The days of October 17 and 18 demonstrated the convergence of hatred expressed by the followers of the black flag and by the delinquent scum - who we must stop calling "opportunistic", Mr. Minister of the Interior.

THE EDITORIAL BY YVES THREARD

“Either you realize how dangerous you are, or you stay on the barbecue and it will hurt,” warns the president of 23-3, the criminal chamber of the Paris judicial court, where the very first immediate appearances take place after October 17. In the box, massive build in a black t-shirt, MG is clever and strings together answers that have nothing to do with the questions. Coming from Tours on the morning of the 17th, he was caught with, in his backpack, nine small empty vials, 90 proof alcohol, plenty of tow and three lighters. “A Molotov cocktail in pieces,” the public prosecutor summed up a little later.

For the moment, the 21-year-old young man is not giving up: “It was to have a barbecue at a friend’s house in the 11th, for my birthday. » The president gets angry: “Your trial is now, not in two hours, not in two years. » “It’s because I didn’t have time to change my backpack before leaving for Paris,” he says. On the screen, the court watches two videos which are a gag: MG is filmed carrying out tests the day before, at night, in front of a railway track: we see him lighting the tow stuck in a bottle and waiting for it to ignite. Then a voice-over says “come on, go ahead, it’s okay”, before the “inflammable and explosive device” is launched, as described in article 322-11 of the penal code. The latter breaks and goes out instantly on the other side of the barbed wire. A smile runs through the courtroom. “My goal was not to hurt people,” replies the young defendant, with no criminal record, and a former firefighter. “My arms are falling,” sighs the president. The prosecutor requires “10 months in prison, adjustable ab initio”.

This case - only four appearances before the Paris criminal court for Monday - is not the most representative of the profiles who carried out the rampages of October 17. The Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, underlined this: the vast majority of individuals arrested are almost exclusively men - around 80% -, aged 18 to 30, many of whom have criminal records. We could also add that they are almost exclusively young urban people.

Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu will travel to Limoges on Friday, the scene of violent demonstrations which resulted in the burning of the town hall, Matignon announced on Monday.

The belfry of Limoges Town Hall collapsed on Saturday after demonstrators set it on fire.

The police “lacked resources” and “backed down” in the face of the thugs, “in Limoges as in other cities,” lambasted its mayor Guillaume Guérin (LR), demanding from the government “a Marshall plan” and “a rain of millions” to rebuild the town hall, and judging that “the State has failed”.

In a letter sent on Sunday to Guillaume Guérin, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu promised that the town hall would be rebuilt with the help of the State “because it is the symbol of a Nation which does not allow itself to be defeated or intimidated”.

The Minister of the Interior Laurent Nuñez, who came to Marseille on Monday evening to speak with the mayor (DVG) Benoît Payan, promised him more law enforcement next Saturday to supervise the next demonstration.

“We will deploy a very significant police force,” the minister announced to the press, after an interview of more than 45 minutes with the mayor of France’s second city who had forcefully requested his arrival.

Before Benoît Payan, who had questioned the nature of the orders given to the police last Saturday in Marseille and deplored their insufficient number, demanding "accounts", the minister assured that their "employment will be done (in the future) a lot in mobility, in extreme reactivity, taking into account the fact that we have groups of thugs who have taken action at many points".

During the violence and looting in the Marseille city, “there could be up to 10 or 15 points at the same time with groups of sometimes 200 people, so it is obviously extremely difficult to contain,” underlined the minister.

The local Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) counted on Monday “500 impacted businesses, including 317 damaged and looted” in France’s second city. The police made 101 arrests, including 74 adults and 27 minors, in the city following Saturday's violence, the prosecutor's office said on Monday.