Will prison van ambush put law and order at heart of EU elections in France?

at a Normandy toll booth and freed a convict linked to gangland drug killings, the debate on law and order in France has intensified before next month’s European elections., the far-right president of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, used the same dramatic vocabulary to warn of “savagery” in French society.

Opposition politicians said prisoners appeared able to continue their criminal activities from inside prison, which were increasingly violent. Jérôme Durain, a Socialist senator who co-headed the senate commission on drug trafficking, said the Normandy prison van ambush confirmed “some of the worries in our report: that the risk of pre-meditated escape linked to criminal organisations was very real because of those organisations’ huge financial capacity”.

The issue of law and order in France is not itself a central topic in European election manifestos, but many politicians are seizing on it to prepare the ground for the presidential race of 2027.at an unprecedented high of around 32% in the European elections with the French president Emmanuel Macron’s centrist list lagging significantly behind on about 17%.

Macron’s response has been to push forward the young prime minister, Gabriel Attal, as the voice of an increasingly hardline on “authority”, security, crime and youth violence. Attal will debate with Bardella on TV next week, and questions are now expected on the violent prison van ambush.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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