2023-09-15 23:22:08
They were photographed in Lille during a demonstration against pension reform in June. Police officers displaying supremacist tattoos were sanctioned with a reminder for non-compliance with police ethical rules, according to lawyer and regional councilor for Hauts-de-France Sarah Kerrich-Bernard, who had seized in June the general inspectorate of the national police (IGPN).
On June 7, I warned about photos of police officers taken at demonstrations in Lille. We see them sporting tattoos with supremacist connotations.
Today I have an answer: these agents were indeed sanctioned for non-compliance with ethical rules!
As a reminder ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/Q957Ga5azh— Sarah Kerrich-Bernard (@Sarah_Kerrich) September 15, 2023
“The police officers concerned were sanctioned with a reminder of the rule having contravened the ethical obligations of neutrality, impartiality, dignity and exemplarity which are imposed on the personnel of the National Police”, we can read in a letter dated July 5 from the director of public security in the North published Friday on X (formerly Twitter) by Sarah Kerrich-Bernard, and which was addressed to him.
“Used by QAnons and neo-Nazis”
These Lille police officers wear “valknuts” on their forearms, symbols “very fashionable among white supremacists and neo-Nazis”, as indicated by independent photographer Ricardo Parreira, who published the photos of the police officers on X ( ex-Twitter).
Associated with the “völkisch” movement, a supremacist, racist and anti-Semitic intellectual movement that appeared in Germany in the 20th century, this symbol experienced renewed interest “following the invasion of the Capitol in the United States”, according to the site IndexTrême, which lists the graphic symbols re-appropriated by the extreme right in France. “In France, this symbol is used by QAnons and neo-Nazis,” it is specified.
Sarah Kerrich-Bernard contacted the IGPN following the publication of these photos. If the fact of displaying such symbols is not criminally reprehensible, “the police do not have the right to display tattoos on the arms which correspond to a manifestation of interest in a political, trade union, religious or religious organization. associative, or if they undermine the fundamental values of the Nation”, she told us in June, based on a 2018 note from the General Directorate of the National Police (DGPN).
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