Following the disturbances of recent days in Brussels and in several Walloon cities, Bernard Quintin, our Minister for Security, spoke with the utmost firmness in the Chamber.
“Whoever breaks, pays. Full stop. Point. Basta,” he stressed straight away.
For the MR, it is clear: the cost of the damage must be recovered from those responsible for the violence and the harm they have caused.
The Minister stressed his commitment to the right to demonstrate and to freedom of expression. But it must be noted that, for several months now, every demonstration has sadly seen acts of violence.
“When the police give an order, it must be respected,” the Minister therefore reminded.
Finally, he lamented the waves of hatred directed at our police officers: “What signal do we send when an entire police force, made up of tens of thousands of men and women, is publicly pilloried? These same men and women who, day after day, put on their uniforms to protect us, sometimes at the risk of their own lives.
“You will find me, as you will the whole of this government, always standing in the way of those who, through the multiplication of disturbances, seem intent on turning society into a field of ruins. We will never let the dictatorship of violence prevail,” he concluded to applause from the majority.