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Frédéric Veaux, the director general of the national police, estimated on Monday July 24 that “a police officer has[vait] no place in prison”, while an agent of the BAC is currently detained. Opposition elected officials and magistrates were indignant.
At the top of the police hierarchy, Frédéric Veaux, the director general of the national police, took a position, Monday, July 24, in the columns of Parisian. “A police officer has no place in prison, even if he has committed serious faults (…)“, he declares there, in favor of the release of the BAC agent detained as part of an investigation into police violence in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône). Statements which immediately provoked the indignation of elected officials of the opposition and magistrates.
“No one is above the law”
Asked about the controversy this morning during an interview with 13 Hours of France 2, Emmanuel Macron said “hear the emotion of the police“but recalled that”no one is above the law” and “everyone must follow the law“.”Ethics is intractable“, he added. This Monday again, in Marseille, many police officers declared themselves on sick leave.