Mathilde Panot sparks controversy with her comments on the municipal police
The president of the LFI deputies, Mathilde Panot, sparked controversy by asserting that, wherever her movement won mayoral elections in 2026, the municipal police would be disarmed. She also criticized the use of video surveillance.
By Pierre MaurerJean-Luc Mélenchon and the Insoumis regularly call for "rebuilding the police from the ground up." This Sunday, July 6, on BFMTV, the president of the LFI deputies, Mathilde Panot, went further in explaining the text by affirming that the LFI mayors elected during the next municipal elections in 2026 will disarm the municipal police wherever they are armed.
"And we will fight to ensure that, at the national level, they are reintegrated into the national police force. We are not going to make them disappear overnight, nor take away their jobs overnight," she explained. She then called for more resources to be allocated to "prevention," rather than "overdoing it" on security policy.
Le Parisien
