It is a news item that relaunches the debate on police safety. A 16-year-old teenager was arrested Monday while filming police officers and their cars.
It is 6 p.m. Monday in the rue des Quarante Arpents in Viroflay when the altercation occurs. Three police officers are patrolling when one of them notices that a teenager is filming them and posts the video on the Snapchat social network. The young man agrees to remove her from the platform but he refuses to be arrested. Finally arrested, he was brought before the prosecution for contempt and rebellion.
An incident which testifies to a feeling of insecurity within the police force. “When you film police officers, their faces, and you list police license plates, these are not benevolent acts. The police officer when he works he is not afraid but very often he is afraid for his family and suddenly has to go and live quite far from his place of work ”, underlines Jerome Jimenez, UNSA Police representative.
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To protect the police, the broadcasting of videos is now very regulated by law. “The fact of filming and broadcasting a video with the aim of harming the physical or mental integrity of a police officer or a gendarme is also punishable by imprisonment and fines, so we have a whole legislative arsenal which protects ”, explains Georges Fenech.
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