Emmanuel Macron lors d'une visite à l'hôtel de police de Montpellier le 19 avril 2021. MONTPELLIER: French police warned President Emmanuel Macron about rising levels of street violence, as he toured crime hotspots on Monday following a string of shocking assaults.
Macron was driven around a poverty-wracked part of the southern city in a police car where he spoke to officers and observed drug-dealing spots. Another officer said that anti-police violence had been normalised during the anti-government"yellow vest" revolt which began in 2018.Macron asked if police had observed a difference since the protests which often saw demonstrators battle security forces on the streets.
Macron singled out the rise in violence against police officers, firefighters and medics as being of particular concern.
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