Macron called a dissolution of the Assembly and emergency elections on the eve of summer, hoping that this would allow him to finish his term by governing with the RN. The plan did not go as planned, and for the past two months, he has been doing everything he can to erase his failure and stay in power.

To “test” public opinion, a whole series of detestable names were circulated during the summer as possible Prime Ministers: the far-right Wauquiez, the air-eating politician Xavier Bertrand, the enlightened bourgeois Valérie Pécresse and even Ségolène Royal. Nothing was spared to us. Figures who only represent themselves but are hated by almost everyone.

It is finally Bernard Cazeneuve who seems to have landed the job. Face of a bailiff, clothes from the 1940s and fetid ideas. He was Minister of the Interior, Minister of the Budget and Prime Minister under François Hollande. He is received this Monday by Macron, in a final round of “negotiations”, before the two former Presidents of the Republic François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy.

The system is already united behind Bernard Cazeneuve: the spokesperson for the National Rally declares that “there will be no censorship in principle” if he is Prime Minister. Bayrou, who has emerged from a parallel reality, declares that he is “experienced and that he has credibility with the public”. Yaël Braun-Pivet, a figure of the right wing of Macronism, validates his nomination. The socialist mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo believes that he “will be able to unite”. Former Minister Luc Ferry even advises him to “integrate the RN” into his government.

The political and media class wants to legitimize an individual who once represented a fraction of the Socialist Party. A party that now weighs less than 2% in elections. In other words, Cazeneuve is insignificant. Not comparable to the 30% of voters of the Popular Front and the 22% of France Insoumise who were swept aside with a wave of the hand. But since Cazeneuve will probably be the next head of government, let’s look back at his career stained with blood, tears and destruction:

Rémi Fraisse

2014, Cazeneuve is Minister of the Interior. At the head of the police, he leads a fierce repression, in particular against environmentalist struggles. In retrospect, Darmanin is only a modest successor to the violence of his predecessor.

That year, a struggle takes root in Sivens, in the southwest of France, against a dam project intended for a handful of productive farmers. History is definitely repeating itself.

Faced with the protesters, Cazeneuve deploys maximum violence, several people are mutilated by the police. And the repression reaches its peak on October 25. On a deforested esplanade, the Minister deploys hundreds of armed men with the order to use their entire arsenal. Dozens of explosive grenades are fired. One of them, fired in the middle of the night, in the middle of a crowd, tore out the spine of Rémi Fraisse, a young 21-year-old environmentalist.

Rather than calling for help, the police dragged the lifeless body and hid it all night. The next day, the media reported a corpse “found” in Sivens, as if he had died alone. The authorities tried to make people believe that explosives contained in the victim’s bag had killed him. A macabre lie. The truth was finally revealed: for the first time in decades, a protester had been killed by the State.

Rather than provoking a political shock, the PS chose to unreservedly support the police officers responsible. Worse: they banned all demonstrations for Rémi Fraisse, which were in turn harshly repressed. This is a major turning point in French political history: the police know that they can kill an opponent without a major reaction, and with the support of their superiors. Bernard Cazeneuve, will go so far as to declare cynically a few years later: "it is not the attacks that made me gain the respect of my men, but Sivens".

The justice system has since closed the investigation into the death of Rémi Fraisse.

State of emergency

November 2015. The socialist government shamefully took advantage of the Bataclan attacks to declare a state of emergency and abolish all public freedoms.

In the first few hours, 3,579 administrative searches were launched throughout the country by Cazeneuve, the vast majority of which targeted Muslim men and women. Children were taken into custody for remarks considered suspicious, doors were blown apart and the police terrified families. There would be no follow-up to this unprecedented wave of searches.

The state of emergency allowed for the house arrest of any person whose behavior there was “serious reason to believe constitutes a threat to public security and order”. Bernard Cazeneuve thus arbitrarily confined 404 people at home, sometimes for several months. While COP 21, the climate summit, is scheduled in Paris, he uses the anti-terrorist arsenal without any complexes to strike environmentalists. "I fully assume this firmness", the Minister of the Interior will boast. Proud to use the deaths of an attack to ban environmental demonstrations.

Labor law

In 2016, the socialist government launched a "Labor Law", which made employees precarious. A major movement that lasted from March to June.

The repression ordered by Bernard Cazeneuve was militarized. The use of LBDs was then generalized, the BAC and intervention companies were sent to shock the processions. Several demonstrators were blinded. Arrests rained down. It has become common, but at the time, it was relatively new.

The violence deployed against a social and union movement by a "left-wing" government is unprecedented, and prefigures those that will follow: notably against the Yellow Vests or on pensions.

And once again, Bernard Cazeneuve uses the state of emergency to issue "public appearance bans", an exceptional anti-terrorist measure that is directed against demonstrators. It allows a person to be banned, without a court order, from being present in a city during a demonstration, on the sole basis of the wishes of the police. A very serious precedent.

Racist measures

In 2016, the Cazeneuve law on asylum and immigration goes further than those voted by Sarkozy, and prepares the ground for Darmanin's measures. It brutalizes the fate of exiled people, allows children to be locked up in detention centers and establishes the end of medical confidentiality for foreign patients.

Cazeneuve proposes the name of Fabrice Leggeri to head FRONTEX, the European border surveillance agency. Leggeri has since been accused of serious human rights violations and crimes against humanity during his time at FRONTEX. He is now a member of the National Rally, and an MEP under this label.

Finally, Cazeneuve launched a huge operation to expel migrants from Calais, to inhumanely dismantle the "jungle". The tents are gassed, drinking water too, grenades are fired every night, a real hell.

Gifts to the bosses

Before that, in 2013 and 2014, Bernard Cazeneuve had been the budget minister. He was the one who defended the CICE: the “tax credit for competitiveness and employment” which was a huge gift to businesses. A massive tax cut, supposedly to “help create jobs”.

10 years later, this scheme has cost 100 billion euros. And has not created any jobs. This money could have financed public services and protected pensions. And if such a sum had been directly redistributed to workers, it would have represented hundreds of thousands of jobs.

Licence to kill

In 2017, it was Bernard Cazeneuve who brought in the law that “relaxed” the possibility of law enforcement officers using live ammunition. During the 2012 presidential campaign, the police demonstrated, armed, to demand a “presumption of self-defense” – in other words, a license to kill. The demand was taken up by the FN and UMP candidates.

In 2017, it was the PS that modified the framework of self-defense and extended the use of firearms. The police obtained the right to shoot not only to defend themselves, but also to “defend a place under their responsibility” – one can imagine the interpretations that can be made in the case of struggles against major projects –, “when they must prevent a prisoner from escaping” but also “to prevent a car from evading a check”. Since then, the number of shootings and deaths has exploded. Nahel’s death, for example, is the direct result of Cazeneuve’s measure.

Rwanda

In 1998, Cazeneuve was rapporteur of a “Parliamentary information mission on the role of France in Rwanda”. It contributes to hiding France’s overwhelming responsibility in the genocide committed in 1994, and in particular the role of the Élysée on the side of the criminals.

In 2021, a commission of historians chaired by Vincent Duclert delivered its conclusions on the responsibility of the Élysée, and Cazeneuve tried again to prevent the PS from recognizing the obvious, that is to say the involvement of the socialist government of the time in the carnage.

The transition plan with Le Pen

Finally, Cazeneuve was a short-lived Prime Minister at the end of Hollande's twilight term, just before Macron's election.

In May 2017, while the far right was in the second round against Emmanuel Macron, Bernard Cazeneuve developed a "plan to preserve civil peace". It was not about opposing a possible rise to power of Marine Le Pen but on the contrary to more effectively repress the mobilizations that could oppose the far right.

"The public authorities anticipated violence by far-left activists in the event of Marine Le Pen's election to the Élysée" explained Le Figaro. At the time, Cazeneuve planned to "stay in office to manage the crisis" because he anticipated "a wave of violence following the election of the National Front candidate".

At the ministry, they do not fear the arrival of fascism, but "far-left movements" that "will undoubtedly seek to organize demonstrations, some of which could lead to serious unrest," continues Le Figaro, seduced by Cazeneuve.

The Minister's idea is therefore, in such a scenario, to "remain in office until the legislative elections, after the election of the new president," "a practice contrary to republican tradition, but in accordance with the constitution." It would be a "forced cohabitation" between the PS and the FN to "manage the crisis" and "ensure the security of the State," with the fear "that a new Minister of the Interior, possibly inexperienced, would take office in such a context." As early as 2017, the PS and in particular Cazeneuve were already considering handing the country over to the far right while crushing possible resistance by force. Chilling.

By tracing this pedigree, Macron's appointment of such an individual to head an authoritarian government flouting the result of an election would therefore be perfectly coherent and logical.

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