Marine Tondelier calls into question the doctrine of maintaining order, which “is not used wisely” according to her. “I find it problematic that in a Republic, in our democracy, we can no longer demonstrate in a peaceful manner and that peaceful demonstrators are subject to more repression,” she added.
The national secretary of Ecologists and presidential candidate, Marine Tondelier, spoke on Sunday October 18 on France Inter and France 2 after the day of mobilization of October 17.
This demonstration brought together between 550,000 people, according to the Minister of the Interior, and 800,000 people according to the organizers. The event was marked in several cities by violent clashes and numerous lootings.
“There are no winners on Saturday, there are only losers,” lamented the boss of the Ecologists. She cites among the losers"the demonstrators, whose demands were not heard","the police officers who were injured","the shopkeepers who were vandalized"and"the French who saw these scenes on TV and who are extremely shocked".
Stating that"this is not something against the police, it is something against governments and the decisions they take and the way in which they have managed this social conflict", she now calls on the government to give political responses to the demands.