They are more used to wandering, wiretapping and raiding at 6 in the morning, than demonstrating. This Friday, however, the men and women of the Nice Criminal Police clearly expressed their dissatisfaction in front of the Auvare barracks. There were about forty gathered around 16, supported by the National Association of the Judicial Police (1).
Investigators from the PJ Nice intended by this movement to support Eric Arella, director of the PJ South Zone, landed by surprise on Friday. A respected man who was in charge of the fight against drugs. He oversaw the investigations into narcobanditismo throughout the southern area, from Perpignan to Nice, passing through Marseille.
The announcement of his transfer was sent to AFP by the Directorate General of the National Police (DGPN), the day after a demonstration in Marseille against the reform of the Judicial Police. This protest movement probably caused him to hasten his departure.
In front of the bishopric, the Marseille police station, nearly 200 PJ hounds, some of them from Toulon, had in fact given a very special welcome to the great national police chief, Frédéric Veaux. The video of their stunt went viral on the web. We see Frédéric Veaux advancing in the middle of a hedge of policemen with crossed arms, in silence. In office since 2020, Frédéric Veaux had been in particular, at the beginning of his career, head of the research and intervention brigade of Nice and of the narcotics and exploiters brigade of Marseille.
The drop too much
For the protesters in Nice, Eric Arella’s eviction this Friday was the last straw. In a statement, the union of national police commissioners denounced a decision “brutal”, “unfair” and claim a “true social dialogue”. The union gives its full support to Eric Arella. The Police Unit SGP 06 is also working alongside the demonstrators in Nice, therefore “unconditional”.
The reform provides for a complete overhaul of the PJ. He plans to place all police services – public security, intelligence, border police (PAF), judicial police (PJ) – under the guidance of a department director. If the reform were applied, the Departmental Director of the National Police (DDPN) would be placed under the responsibility of the prefect, while today the Judicial Police operates on a regional basis. What the protesters reject.
Dominique Abbenanti, previously in charge of internal security in Algiers, will replace Eric Arella, who will join the Inspectorate General of the National Police (IGPN) on Monday. Dominique Abbenanti was in particular Deputy Director of the Scientific Technical Police and led the Nice Criminal Police for three years, until 2010.
(1) In August, investigators and investigating magistrates set up the ASNPJ to protest the ongoing reform of the judicial police.
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