During the night from Wednesday to Thursday, photos of police officers were plastered on buildings in a city in Epinay-sur-Seine (Seine-Saint-Denis).
Two police officers from the night squad are concerned. The photos were stolen from Facebook: a selfie and a wedding photo.
The park of Bobigny opened an investigation for “acts of intimidation”.
Darmanin’s indignation
Thursday, in the National Assembly, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin was indignant that the faces and the names of police officers were displayed in buildings “where we make deals”.
Present in the hemicycle for the final vote on the much contested comprehensive security bill, he affirmed that, “by voting on this text, we will now have the opportunity to prosecute in the most efficient way possible all those who want to threaten “the police and the gendarmes.
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“A milestone has been crossed”, denounces a union
For its part, the SGP Police 93 union estimated on Facebook that “a milestone had been crossed”.
“Personal photos of police officers were stolen and then displayed in building halls. A clear way to harm and intimidate these police officers who attack the trafficking that rots the life of the neighborhoods. Bravo to the detractors of Article 24 of the global security law, your complicity dishonors you “, ironically the message posted by the union on the social network.
Disregarded on the left, denounced by journalists’ organizations but widely supported by police unions, article 24 of this law aims to protect the police in operation by penalizing the malicious dissemination of their image.
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