Do not talk too much about annoying subjects. This Monday evening, Cyril Hanouna received at the very end of “Touche pas à mon poste” on C8 Laurent Nuñez, the Paris police chief. A come decided after the controversial intervention, Friday in the same program, of four hooded people and wearing a “Police” armband.
Presented live by Cyril Hanouna as members of the Brav-M (brigade for the repression of motorized violent actions), these three men and a woman had described on set the difficult working conditions of the police officers responsible for maintaining order during the demonstrations. . “There are among us members of the Brav-M and members of specialized units who intervene in the maintenance of order,” said one of the speakers.
Problem, the quartet quickly attracted the attention of the Paris police headquarters. “The first elements in our possession suggest that these people do not belong to the Brav-M”, tweeted on Friday evening the “PP”, announcing the opening of an administrative investigation and the referral to the prosecutor of the Republic of Paris. On Saturday, it was also established that at least one of the hooded people was no longer in the police force, after being expelled in December 2022.
A “non-respect of the duty of reserve”
This Monday evening, Cyril Hanouna and Laurent Nuñez first avoided tackling the controversy head-on. For fifteen minutes, the prefect of police in the capital mainly defended the work of his troops, accused in recent weeks of having brutalized demonstrators against the pension reform.
It was only at the very end of the show that the star of C8 briefly returned to the angry subject. “We wanted to do well”, he began by advancing, explaining that he wanted to give the floor to people “in the field”. The enfant terrible of the PAF then clarified that a speaker present Friday on his set would be a member of the Brav-M. “We are investigating.”
Right in his boots, Laurent Nuñez felt on the contrary that the sequence had thrown “discredit” on the unit he leads “. “What bothers me is that there is non-respect of the duty of reserve”, tackled the senior official, then judging that the emission of the Eight had let speak in the name of his brigade, armband “Police on the arm, an official yet “dismissed”.
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“He was not speaking on behalf of the Brav-M (…) but as a former man in the field”, retorted Cyril Hanouna. Regarding the armband, the host tried to justify it by explaining that this former member of the police was still part of a police union and had asked for his “reintegration”. “You will investigate and you will tell us”, he ended up concluding at the address of his guest. Before immediately returning to the antenna for the benefit of “Mongeville”. A detective series, of course.