The scandal that has been splashing for a few days the security and intervention company of Seine-Saint-Denis (CSI), of which several agents were indicted on Thursday for forgery and use of forgery in public writing, and placed under judicial control , is, for this commissioner of 93, open secrecy. “Everyone knew it,” he slips, taking refuge behind the reserve imposed on him by his function.
“For three to four years, business has been going up,” he continues. And not just up to the local police station. The local security department of the Paris agglomeration (DSPAP), on which these 150 agents depend, would have been taken in the confidence.
But in the beginning, it was business here and there relayed in the neighborhoods by the rumor. These echoes came from dealers who would never have risked walking through the door of a police station to file a complaint. These rumors ended up swelling and being taken really seriously.
These dubious practices had started to annoy the police on the ground. “We knew because they made no secret that in the CSI, we could make several hundred euros per month in cash on the money of the deal,” said another official.
Buying shots
In this city of Seine-Saint-Denis, these cases had never been the subject of a flagrante delicto, but they all had a common source: “It was about buying shots on drugs”, details Commissioner. In the jargon, a buying coup is when an undercover police officer buys hash from a dealer according to a very supervised procedure and subject to the authorization of the prosecution.
However, when certain CSI officials were in the process of maneuvering, the buying coup was akin to a Jarnac coup. At the foot of the buildings, it was said that “the police gathered the dealers in the hall and beat them, they pocketed the money and the drugs in the process.”
Another trick consisted of entering a “nurse” accommodation, where the drugs are stored, under conditions not very regulatory: and “they added an additional kilo to make the case shine. It is always more rewarding ”, continues this official.
The ITUC inspired fear
Another well-established scheme described by a police officer: “They were hiding in a city, spotted where the nanny was, were going to use drugs and money. Then they called an OPJ (judicial police officer) telling him: it smells like hash over there. The policeman was doing nothing, obviously ”.
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The company inspired awe. “In the cities, the dealers never pebbled the CSI, they feared that they would then make a big descent”, he adds.
In view of this information, in this police station, we said to ourselves that there was no smoke without fire. Decision had been taken by the boss “to no longer work with the CSI”. A real concern, because this unit of 150 seasoned men, created in 2008 by Nicolas Sarkozy, was specialized in maintaining order in the cities.
“Group effect”
When the tension rose a notch, the CSI was sent to the field. They also intervened within the framework of “round against crime” in support of local staff.
“It is a pity that the problem was not taken at the root,” continues the commissioner. At first there might have been a few people involved, but then there was a group effect. “
Police officers suspected of throwing a package of drugs at the feet of a man
Judging by the number of procedures launched by the Bobigny public prosecutor’s office, it would not be isolated cases. One of them, nicknamed “the cancerous”, had already been arrested last year after a slip committed in Saint-Ouen in the city of Cordon, on August 9.
A dealer had lodged a complaint for “acts of torture and barbarism” after, he denounced, having taken “a taser in the genitals”. Six had been taken into police custody. A trial will be held in November in Bobigny.
The noises of the city began to take on a certain consistency. Seventeen inquiries were carried out and they are said to concern several dozen officials of the unit.
The prefecture of police announces the dissolution of the service
This Thursday, the Paris police headquarters declared the dissolution of the CSI 93. The staff should be deployed in the Parisian agglomeration … except in Seine-Saint-Denis.
If some do not fall naked after the discovery of the pot aux roses, some police officers of 93 say they are completely surprised: “We never had any problems with them. “For this policeman on the ground who works in a very bustling city of the department, he believes that this operation against the CSI” is part of the anti-cop climate that reigns at the moment. We must give pledges and have some branches cut. “
