France’s Police Unions Are Gaining Power — and They’re Denouncing the Left
▻https://jacobin.com/2022/06/french-police-unions-lefebvre-darmanin-crime-nupes-election
“There will be immense protests within the Police Nationale,” Yves Lefebvre told Jacobin. “I said that I will never obey Jean-Luc Mélenchon. France would be set on fire, but this time it would pit the Police Nationale against the political powers of the day,” said the secretary-general of the interior ministry section of Force Ouvrière, a branch of France’s largest police union.