2023-07-24 13:44:09
His speech on the subject was eagerly awaited. Emmanuel Macron was questioned this Monday noon during his televised intervention from Nouméa on the interview with the Parisian of the boss of the national police. He considered that “before a possible trial, a police officer has no place in prison, even if he may have committed serious faults or errors in the context of his work”.
“I will not comment” on the decision taken by a magistrate, first commented on the head of state. But “I would not like us to get the wrong debate,” he said, ensuring that he understood the “emotion” of the police and paying tribute to their work during the riots. “I confirm to you” that the police are not above the law, he however also affirmed.
“Their legitimacy is due to the fact that they protect the republican framework and of course, they are part of the republic and the law”, Emmanuel Macron recalled again, referring on several occasions to the number of injured among the police and the degree of violence they faced.
A policeman imprisoned in Marseille for suspicion of violence
Four officials from the south and center anti-crime brigades of Marseille were indicted on the night of Thursday to last Friday for violence in a meeting by a person holding public authority with the use or threat of a weapon resulting in an ITT (total incapacity for work) greater than eight days. Three of them are under judicial supervision and one has been placed in pre-trial detention, which has angered the police in Marseille.
The alleged victim, Hedi, a 21-year-old young man injured and hospitalized on the night of July 1 to 2, explained that he was beaten by a group of four to five people he had identified as police officers from the crime squad, after being shot in the temple by LBD.
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