The mobilization is gaining momentum, after the announcement of the ousting of Eric Arella. The director of the judicial police of Marseille has been dismissed from his post, announcement made this Friday by the National Police Department.
Eviction which intervenes the day after a demonstration in Marseilles where 200 police officers welcomed in an icy atmosphere the Director General of the National Police (DGPN), Frédéric Veaux. “Obviously, as with any reform, there are discussions, there may be disagreements, but such disloyalty is not acceptable“, explains the DGPN to France Info this Friday. “The results in Marseille are also poor with record levels of homicides while the workforce has been considerably reinforced”continues the Directorate General of the National Police.
Mobilization in Versailles
After Limoges, Nantes, Orléans, members of the Versailles judicial police pounded the pavement on Friday afternoon.
Gathering in front of the gates of the Palace of Versailles, Marseillaise intoned and “long live the PJ” launched by some, the demonstrators also lined up in the street with the barred Judicial Police.
Eric Arella has held this position since 2015. He will now join the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) from Monday, announces the DGPN. The name of his replacement is already known. This is Dominique Abbenanti, hitherto internal security attaché in Algiers. He has held a number of positions in the judicial field, as deputy director of the Scientific Technical Police but also several times as PJ antenna chiefs, notably in Nice.
Among the reactions to remember that of the general secretary of the SGP-Police FO Unit union. “In the national police, it’s much faster to fire a boss who defends his ideas, his profession and supports his women, his men, than a boss who makes them suffer“, he denounces this Friday on Twitter. Other mobilizations took place in Ile-de-France, in particular in Nanterre.