It is easy to spot them by the flashes of bluish light at night and the characteristic noise of the two-tone siren. For almost three weeks, the same scene has been repeated every evening, everywhere in France: dozens of police gather, turn on the beacons and protest for a few minutes against the “Letting go” by the power they feel they are subject to.
Friday, June 26, it was in front of the Bataclan, in Paris, that the screen-printed vehicles gathered. In the anonymity of the night, the statement contrasts with the usual duty of reserve. « [Christophe] Castaner planted a knife in our back, for us he is no longer our minister ”, confided a member of an anti-crime squad (BAC), crossed Place de la République in Paris, during one of these wild demonstrations.
In question, the clumsy communication of the Minister of the Interior who had announced, at a press conference organized on June 8, the removal of the throttling key and the automatic suspension of the agents against whom there would be a “Proven suspicion” of racism. Beyond the dubious concept on the legal level, of which Christophe Castaner had regretted the use, the unease is deeper.
The police consider that the speech of the Beauvau tenant marks a break with the government’s doxa of absolute support for the police, which prevailed until then and which was summed up by this formula repeated over and over throughout the movement of ” yellow vests “:” Police violence does not exist “.
The union union National Police, one of the main organizations of peacekeepers, requests to be received by Emmanuel Macron. “We need the head of state to listen to us, explains Olivier Hourcau, assistant secretary general. We were fed up with the stigmatization of the police, the lynching on the part of certain elected officials. They have to realize that we had never seen that, actions all over France, every night. We are awaiting answers. “
Particularly offensive unions
Far from deflating, the angry movement of the police seems to have increased in recent days, with symbolic actions. Two of them particularly attracted attention. On Wednesday June 24, 200 officials dropped their batons on the ground in Strasbourg to protest against the suspended sentence of eighteen months in prison for one of their own, for having clubbed a 62-year-old “yellow vest”. A direct challenge to a judicial decision.
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