"We need to rally around a political figure, and for me that could be Gérald Darmanin," said a local politician who had come to support the Minister of the Interior as he made his political comeback in his stronghold of Tourcoing, in northern France, at a time when his ambitions for the next presidential election are becoming increasingly clear. (COMPLETES VIDI33TF4BW_EN) IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES