00:00But first, France is getting ready for yet another weekend of protests by high-skilled
00:04students and the Yellow Vests movement. The government says they are increasing security
00:10and personnel to try to mitigate further violence. But the tension has reached such levels in the
00:16country that the police have filed a complaint against the state. For more on this, we spoke
00:20exclusively to the top French police union, Stanislas Rodin.
00:28It's because we have too many competing orders, lack of training, for teams that were not
00:33trained in particular to restore public order, because very often it wasn't about maintaining
00:39order, it was about restoring public order. And so, what we say is that from the moment
00:45that the vagueness, from the moment that the contradictory orders, from the moment when
00:50we were deprived in particular of the use of intermediate weapons, we had a lot of colleagues
00:55injured. And I also recall that there were a lot of teachers and educational personnel who
01:00were injured, and especially high school students. So, we have in fact endangered the safety, the
01:06lives of others. That is not acceptable for us. We do it with responsibility. Why? To highlight
01:11and put on the table all the dysfunctions. I don't understand why someone would sue us
01:16with intent, while we are asking for clarification and for responsibilities to be fully defined
01:21when there are dysfunctions. Because it is all well and good to say, there are dysfunctions, we
01:27did not measure up to it. But in fact, what is the situation really? Have we learned the lessons? Do
01:31the
01:32colleagues have the right equipment to maintain law and order? So you see, in fact, this is to say,
01:36right now, we are putting a stop to mistakes, especially by successive governments, and that we want to
01:41hold the chain responsible, especially the authority, and the dysfunctions of this chain of authorities.
