2023-07-24 00:36:07
This speech undermines the independence of justice, according to them. Several left-wing personalities are rebelling this Sunday evening after the interview by Le Parisien of the boss of the police, Frédéric Veaux, in which he wishes the release of the policeman from the Marseille BAC, imprisoned as part of an investigation into police violence committed on the sidelines of the riots in early July.
“Knowledge in prison prevents me from sleeping,” Frédéric Veaux told Le Parisien. “In general, I consider 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 course of his work”, added the director general of the national police (DGPN).
“But justice never gives in to media or street pressure, it deals with cases. The emotion and the anger passed, we must give ourselves the technical and judicial means so that this police officer finds freedom, ”he continued. These comments also earned Frédéric Veaux the support of the prefect of police of Paris, Laurent Nuñez. “I share the words of the DGPN,” he wrote on Twitter.
I agree with the comments of the DGPN.
Proud to have been Police Prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône and today at the head of the 30,000 police officers in Paris and the Paris area. https://t.co/vD0NZYDxmA—Laurent Nunez (@NunezLaurent) July 23, 2023
“The police are not above the law”
But this position has also aroused the ire of several left-wing elected officials, including the Insoumis deputy Bastien Lachaud. “The highest police hierarchy attacks justice. Frightening. By dint of relying only on repression, of covering up all the blunders, the macronist power has lost all control, ”he said. tweeted.
“The police are not above the law. Between this shocking statement, the words of Prefect Nunez and sick leave! The Republican police have lost their compass. This is Gérald Darmanin separatism”, got annoyed LFI deputy Carlos Martens Bilongo. “After so many violations of the rule of law, the question arises: is it the government that controls the police, or is it the police that controls the government? “Abounded his colleague Louis Boyard.
Very serious. The police hierarchy calls into question a court decision.
Nevertheless @GDarmanin do not say anything.
After so many violations of the rule of law, the question arises:
Is the government controlling the police, or is it the police controlling the government? https://t.co/eP3iNLIIl9
— Louis Boyard (@LouisBoyard) July 23, 2023
The leader of the Insoumis, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, meanwhile ironized about “Darmanin, Macron and the “republican arch”, who “refuse to call the police for calm and respect for the law”, believing that the state was “ridiculous”.
A “major event”
For his part, the deputy and First Secretary of the PS Olivier Faure judged the declaration of the DGPN “very serious”, castigating “the police hierarchy” which “places itself above justice and the rules of pre-trial detention”. “What is at stake here is democracy and respect for the rule of law. The parliament must be convened urgently, ”thundered the elected official, still on Twitter.
If this speech by the DGPN criticizing justice causes so much reaction, it is because it is a “major event”, analyzes researcher Sebastian Roché, specialist in issues of delinquency and the police, on the same social network. “By attacking – as a civil servant – the functioning of institutions, he introduces a corner in the authority of the State. And not a little,” he comments. “A senior civil servant in activity could thus defy the separation of powers, and advise the judicial authority on his behavior. What justification for this tactic? We will hear the highest judicial and administrative courts express themselves very quickly. »
The indictment of the four Marseille police officers, and in particular the temporary detention of one of them, aroused the ire of the Alliance and Unsa Police unions. According to a union source, several hundred Marseille police officers went on sick leave. Others responded to the call of the SGP Police Unit union and put themselves in “code 562”, a police jargon which means that they only assume emergency and essential missions.
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