Riots, financial crisis, 2027, AI… Interview with David Lisnard, the candidate shaking up the right

LE FIGARO MAGAZINE. - A real culture of riot seems to be taking hold in France. Will the return to order be the main issue in the presidential election?

What message do you intend to convey and how can you concretely stop this spiral of chaos? DAVID LISNARD. - The restoration of order will be a major issue, because it conditions our freedoms, our prosperity and of course national harmony.

The French must be able to work, open their businesses, move around, demonstrate peacefully without being subjected to the law of increasingly violent groups. This culture of riot thrives on the conviction that violence achieves what democratic debate and effort cannot. The first perpetrators are those who break, loot and set fires.

Those who excuse them or provide them with political justification contribute to this disinhibition. But the executive must also answer for its profound failings and inconsistency. We must first regain the initiative on the ground.

I assume that I want a doctrine of immediate and targeted intervention: protect threatened sites, isolate violent groups and arrest the perpetrators from the first offenses. This requires better anticipation, units trained and available to intervene simultaneously in several locations, equipment and relief. We need to be able to use AI and drones.

Intelligence must be given precise objectives and corresponding means. Then, impunity must end. From the first offense, including for minors, a sanction must be imposed quickly and executed.

Prison sentences must be effective to protect society. I propose to reinstate minimum sentences, lower the criminal age to 16 years and develop closed disciplinary establishments for minors. We need more financial resources for the sovereign State and less inefficient spending which feeds the bureaucratic State.

The thugs will finally have to pay for the destruction, and the parents will have to answer financially for the actions of their minor children. I would suggest that in the event of insolvency, a levy on social assistance contributes to repayment.

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