An administrative and non-judicial investigation is underway after the broadcast of a video where a trainer from a police academy in Seine-Maritime subjects students to a simulated drowning.
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Hearings have been carried out since Thursday, December 7 in the morning by investigators from the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) within the Oissel police academy in Seine-Maritime as part of the administrative investigation carried out after the broadcast of a video showing a simulated drowning imposed on students, franceinfo learned Thursday, December 7 from consistent sources.
At the end of November, a trainer from the Oissel police academy, near Rouen, was suspended after the broadcast of this video and an administrative investigation by the IGPN, the “police of police”, was launched. This video shows students from this school squatting along a wall, a black cloth over their heads on which water is poured while they are asked to sing the Marseillaise.
According to a source close to the case, contacted Thursday by franceinfo, this investigation is only administrative and not judicial. It is being carried out for “breach of ethics” but no criminal offense has been charged. When questioned, Gérald Darmanin judged that it was “completely unacceptable”. “There is no possibility of doing this kind of absolutely unacceptable thing”insisted the Minister of the Interior, “and the national police, including in its schools, must respect the rules like everyone else”.
