Jean-Michel Fauvergue

Jean-Michel Fauvergue (born 31 January 1957) is a French police commander[1] and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as a member of the National Assembly from 2017 to 2022, representing the department of Seine-et-Marne.[2]

Jean-Michel Fauvergue
Member of the National Assembly
for Seine-et-Marne's 8th constituency
In office
21 June 2017 – 2022
Preceded byEduardo Rihan-Cypel
Personal details
Born (1957-01-31) 31 January 1957
Bages, France
Political partyLa République En Marche!
OccupationPolice commander

Early career

Before entering politics, Fauvergue was the commander of the RAID special police forces unit which carried out the raid in the suburb of Saint Denis during the November 2015 Paris attacks.[3]

Political career

As a parliamentarian, Fauvergue served on the Committee on Legal Affairs. Together with Alice Thourot, he co-authored a 2018 report with more than 70 recommendations on how to support security forces and the Municipal Police in France.[4] In 2020, he served as co-capporteur (alongside Thourot) on a law proposed by Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin to criminalize the dissemination of images showing law enforcement officers with the intention of causing harm to them.[5]

Political positions

In July 2019, Fauvergue voted in favor of the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.[6]

See also

References
  1. French election: Macron team complete rout with Assembly win BBC News, 19 June 2017.
  2. "Elections législatives 2017". Ministry of the Interior (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  3. Jerusalem Post. "French Commandos in anti ISIS raid". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  4. Annabelle Timsit (12 September 2018), France is proposing to give all local cops guns Quartz.
  5. Sébastien Tronche and Etienne Baldit (13 November 2020), Loi «sécurité globale» : Darmanin veut durcir le texte et introduire le floutage des visages des policiers Libération.
  6. Maxime Vaudano (24 July 2019), CETA : qui a voté quoi parmi les députés Le Monde.


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