A month after the post-bile champions riots and a week after the clashes on the sidelines of the Music Festival, Paris is again talking about it abroad. This time, it was street harassment that was pinned on social networks by the president of Salvador Nayib Bukele. “Don’t get me wrong, I love to live in Paris, but it’s not for the weakconfides between two sobs a young woman, in an English video published on X and relayed by the Head of State. I would like to be able to go out right away and enjoy life, but I was so harassed in this damn city that I am afraid of going wherever it is. »»
The Salvadoral leader derives from this sequence the following analysis: “This is the result of the glorification of criminals in Paris. Who spares the wolf sacrifices the sheep. »» The boss of X, Elon Musk, abounded in this direction: “If you save the wolf, you sacrifice the sheep”.
In hollow, nayib Bukele promote the security model who has it rendering famous in the world. Lhe Salvador established in 2022 a state of emergency allowing arrests without a mandate, in order to fight against drug trafficking. This led, according to the authorities, to more than 86,000 arrests, provoking the indignation of human rights NGOs, which denounce multiple abuses. “I don’t care that I treat me a dictatorswept away the Salvadoral President, on June 1, during a speech to the nation. I prefer to be called a dictator rather than seeing (criminals) kill Salvadorians in the streets ”. The results of its security policy are indisputable: en 2019, the number of homicides peaked at 87 per 100,000 inhabitants; In 2023, he fell to 2.41 per 100,000 inhabitants.
Close to the Trump administration, with whom he collaborates closely on the management of illegal immigration and the incarceration of criminals, Nayib Bukele, on the other hand, has the hard tooth towards the French authorities. This morning of June 29, the leader mocked a political fashion show of the Paris Fashion Week, which denounced the Salvadoral prison universe. “We are ready to send (our prisoners) to Paris as soon as we receive the green light from the French government”had he launched on X.
