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Why Mathilde Panot Wants to Disarm Municipal Police Officers: Behind the Buzz, a Political Strategy

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LFI put the rest of the left in trouble and made elected officials like the mayor of Montpellier, Michaël Delafosse, react.
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MAINTENANCE — In a forum published on our site, socialist mayors react to the LFI Mathilde Panot's desire to disarm municipal police and suppress video surveillance.

Actu Forces de l'Ordre As Mathilde Panot revives the debate on the disarmament of municipal police officers, several left-wing mayors step up to the niche to defend security choices that they consider dictated by the "field reality." "The municipal police must not be equipped with firearms."By repeating this position in a video [...] The article Security: left-wing mayors defend the armament of their municipal police against the proposals of Mat…

The armament of the municipal police, which LFI calls into question one year after the municipal elections, has spread widely among the French communes of all political sides, unlike Paris with a large unarmed force. Questioned on Sunday on BFTMV, the chief of the LFI deputies, Mathilde Panot, considered that "a local municipal police does not need to be armed", causing an outcry in the political class. In Cergy, no night brigade without a weapo…

TRIBUNE. The management of the municipal police advocated by MP LFI Mathilde Panot constitutes a dangerous vision of public order: that of voluntary disarmament in the face of the rise of violence, argue Antoine Valentin, mayor UDR de Saint-Jeoire and Mickaël Paccaud, mayor LR de Mions.

During his visit to the Terraillon district of Bron, Laurent Wauquiez (LR) responded to Mathilde Panot's (LFI) bill on the disarmament of the municipal police.

LFI put the rest of the left in trouble and made elected officials like the mayor of Montpellier, Michaël Delafosse, react.

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midilibre.fr broke the news in on Friday, July 11, 2025.
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