2023-07-04 12:14:03
Policeman on the Champs-Elysées, Paris, July 2, 2023. WILLIAM KEO / MAGNUM FOR “THE WORLD”
In unison against the pension reform, in polyphony on the action of the police. While the practices of the security forces have once again fueled controversy since the death of Nahel M., killed by the shooting of a motorcyclist agent, the unions – at the level of their central management – are expressing themselves in very different registers on this burning issue. Number ones many organizations are advocating for deep transformations while others show infinite restraint or disagree with their counterparts.
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This plurality of points of view was brought into full light by a collective appeal published in the daily Release from Saturday 1st – Sunday 2nd July. Initiated by Dominique Sopo, the president of SOS-Racisme, the text contains three demands: a “overhaul” of the law of 28 February 2017 relating to the use of firearms by officials of the Ministry of the Interior, the launch of a “reflection on the prevention of racism within the police” et “the revision of the philosophy of policing, today often focused on confrontation”.
The platform in question has received the initials of personalities from all walks of life – filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz, ex-tennis player Yannick Noah, economist Thomas Piketty, etc. – and that of union officials, including Sophie Binet (CGT), Marylise Léon (CFDT), Benoît Teste (FSU). One of the striking aspects of the process is the absence of several employee organizations from the list of signatories. According to our information, the UNSA was asked to provide support, but it did not respond, without providing an explanation when The world asked him for one.
Do not offend police unions internally
Other confederations were unable to comment on the collective appeal because they were not contacted by SOS-Racisme. However, The world asked them what they thought. “If we had been offered to join this forum, we probably would not have done so”confides François Hommeril, the president of the CFE-CGC, invoking the idea that “It’s not a union text”. “Choices about the philosophy of policing are political, they are necessarily debatablehe adds. The line that I follow, for my organization, is to defend the approximately 140,000 agents who work in the public security service. » Their working conditions and remuneration “have deteriorated incredibly”just like for all civil servants – especially in hospitals – who have been subjected “structural adjustments of public policies”develops Mr. Hommeril: “These agents, often at the bottom of the ladder, are entitled to recognition that they are granted only too rarely. »
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