LIVE – Police attacked in Lyon: Darmanin persists after his controversial tweet and “doesn’t regret anything at all”

Invited this Tuesday morning on the RTL antenna, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin returned to the controversy that accompanied his tweet last Sunday, in which he announced that an individual had been arrested as part of the investigation into the attack on cops. in Lyons. Exonerated, the latter will, however, be expelled from France.

“I do not regret it at all,” he insists, assuring that the person involved is “a multiple repeat offender in the framework of other cases and also a foreigner in an irregular situation. He has been without papers for a year and should have accepted the idea of ​​​​part. What surprises is that we are going to systematically apply the fact that a foreign offender in an irregular situation is deported”, he said.

According to him, this man was arrested “during a police operation.” “There have been 700 since the beginning of the year in the Guillotière district, it is a fight between the police and disorder”, he says again.

Minister Olivier Klein will travel to Trappes, in Yvelines, on Tuesday to talk about home renovations and summer activities.

You will visit a construction site and participate in a round table with local associations on the subject of housing.

For the first time, it is not a Le Pen who will be the president of the National Rally after the party’s congress in the fall.

Marine Le Pen is not running, but Jordan Bardella, the current interim president of the National Association, and Louis Aliot, the mayor of Perpignan, should be candidates.

To be able to compete, the candidates must deposit until September 9 at least 76 signatures of members of the 400 national council, according to information from BFMTV, before convincing the militants.

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Parliament will definitively approve this Tuesday, in the final vote of the Senate, a bill rewritten by the right, which explicitly ends the health pass and other exceptional measures against Covid-19 on August 1, but foresees a possible border mandatory test.

>> What does the text of the law contain? We explain it to you in this article.

The former deputy and former LREM spokesperson Laetitia Avia will be tried on May 9, 2023 by the Paris Criminal Court. for moral harassment of parliamentary assistantsthe prosecution said on Monday, confirming information from Mediapart.

On July 9, 2020, an investigation was opened for moral harassment after several complaints from former employees of Laetitia Avia. After two years of an investigation by the Brigade for the Repression of Crime Against Persons (BRDP), Ms. Avia recently received a summons to appear in court.

Arriving in Yaoundé on Monday night, the first leg of a tour of Africa, Emmanuel Macron is expected Tuesday at the presidential palace for an interview with his 89-year-old counterpart Paul Biya, who has ruled Cameroon with an iron fist. for almost 40 years.

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This Tuesday, this is the president of the National Rally Jordan Bardella who will be the guest of Amandine Atalaya at 8:35 a.m. on BFMTV-RMC.

The debates continue in the National Assembly. During the last eight days, the deputies have been examining several measures related to purchasing power. after adopting at the end of the night from Thursday to Friday, the draft law “On emergency measures for the protection of purchasing power”, Elected officials have been debating the finance reform bill, the “PLFR”, since Friday afternoon.

But for Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy, the work is not going fast enough. “We are witnessing a true diversion of the democratic debate”, he launched in the hemicycle on the night of Monday to Tuesday, denouncing “endless debates”.

Because the review of the PLFR should have concluded tonight, according to the schedule decided before the start of parliamentary work. But due to the large number of amendments, this dragged on until two in the morning. It will continue this Tuesday afternoon, after Questions to the Government.

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Welcome to this direct dedicated to following the political and parliamentary news of this Tuesday, July 26.