He hasn’t quite vacated his office on the top floor of the police station yet. Between two waters, Yann Demeurant restores some order in his lair loaded with souvenirs and gifts. Amidst green plants and pretty views framed by two windows: the spiers of Saint-André and the Niort keep on one side, the courtyard of the Deux-Sèvres prefecture on the other. No, it was not to monitor the comings and goings, nor the possible demonstrators in the street. I had chosen this luminous office for my plants, it was that or else, I produced less
, smiles the police captain, in Bermuda shorts, behind a collector’s sign “General Information”.
The deputy head of the Departmental Territorial Intelligence Service (formerly the RG) hands over, after 36 years of good and loyal service – the expression is not usurped.
The original Vendéen will no longer officiate on the grounds of the demonstrations, his small counter in hand, in his pocket, raising the figures of participation to the authorities in the process, monitoring the agitators and preventing possible overflows. The counts and recounts of “Yann”, as many trade union leaders from Deux-Sévriens call him, made everyone agree, including journalists. I was even rounding a little above
he admits.
“That’s probably why I became a police officer”
I’ll go back to protests, if they’re non-violent
, promises the future retiree. For causes that are close to my heart: the defense of women, nurses, the precarious, the evil…
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