in Paris, municipal police officers demonstrate for better recognition

The 26,000 municipal police officers in France were called to mobilize on Saturday, at the call of several unions and the Angry Municipal Police collective.

Municipal police officers, called to parade in the streets, denounce the difference in treatment with the national police even though the missions are the same according to them. Their main demands: the renewal of their status, a salary increase and a more advantageous calculation of their retirement. In Paris, there were a few hundred for a parade between the Place de la République and the town hall on Saturday February 3.

Fabrice, municipal police officer in Essonne, did the calculation: “I did a simulation. I am 52 years old and 18 years of service, if I leave at 59 I will have less than 900 euros per month. It’s catastrophic. Our colleagues in the national police are 1 000 euros more without difficulty, for the same missions. It absolutely has to stop because it has become unmanageable.”

“If we have to call for blockages during the Olympics, we will”

Camille denounces the missions which increase but not the recognition. “We are not esteemed! When it comes to interventions, we are the first arrivals, the first responders, and despite that, we are left behind. We do not do judicial follow-up but on everything that involves arrests, it “We are the ones on the front line. For example, in my case, we are a family of five, I pay rent of 1,500 euros, so at the end of the month, we count the euros to be able to feed ourselves. “

Jacky Mahé, union delegate at Unsa Paris, will maintain pressure on the government. “You are going to risk your skin every day on public property. This is not the last action and if, tomorrow, we have to call for blockades during the Olympic Games, we will do so, he warns. We will ask that urban surveillance centers be closed, we will ask that the screens be turned off. We have a whole bunch of possibilities. Gabriel Attal has just made decisions for farmers.” Municipal police officers also want to be heard.