Questioned about the number of police officers and gendarmes mobilized, Mr. Nuñez justified having deployed only 60,000 law enforcement officers that day. More than 1,000 police officers and gendarmes were injured on October 17.
Two weeks after these gatherings, he accounted for the personnel deployed, the unrest and the injuries suffered by law enforcement.
The interior minister thus defended the choice not to have mobilized more police officers and gendarmes, while acknowledging the limits of ground coverage that day.
Despite the injuries, Laurent Nuñez stands by the use of certain so-called intermediate weapons, such as grenades or LBDs.
The minister indicated that there were places that could not be covered.