Question 2178 — security of property and people

Summary

Mr. Patrice Martin draws the attention of the Minister of the Interior to the increase in violence suffered by firefighters during their interventions on national territory. Although the ministry recently reported a 7.1% drop in these incidents in 2023, claiming that this reduction was “long-term”, the facts reported on the ground seem to contradict this assertion. This violence, far from being isolated, multiply and affect several departments. Last week, SDIS 76 filed three complaints for threats with knives, spitting, throwing projectiles and insults, committed by relatives of victims and sometimes by the victims themselves in the municipalities of Eu, Rouen and Cany-Barville. Last month, in Dieppe, similar incidents were also reported. Furthermore, two days ago, an investigation was was opened by the gendarmerie following a complaint from the SDIS of Mayenne concerning the attack on firefighters who intervened for a waste fire in a private home, while last June, another firefighter was targeted in Vendée. In Seine-et-Marne, 75 cases of violence were recorded in 2024, highlighting the scale of the phenomenon. Insults, threats, blows, verbal violence, these facts deeply disturb the public service missions of firefighters, who wonder how far this drift will go and express their suffering in the face of unmotivated acts of violence even though they are on duty to assist and rescue the population. This situation creates real apprehension among these professionals, going from the status of “heroes” to gratuitous “targets of incivility”. Faced with these unacceptable behaviors and their impacts on civil security, he questions the Government on the concrete measures it is considering to introduce strong and dissuasive sanctions and to protect firefighters in the exercise of their duties.

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