At the origin of a blackface in Poitiers, municipal police officers in training. A month ago, a video was published, making the rounds on social networks, on which we see a client of a Poitevin restaurant, dancing with her face made up in black in front of colleagues. Since then, the restaurateur has been the subject of death threats and has lost 80% of its turnover.
Future police officers suspended
It is actually future municipal police officers in training for a few months in Poitiers, at the Center de Formation Publique Territoriale. The management of the establishment condemns the attitude of the officials. Their training was immediately suspended temporarily. A letter was also sent to the communities that employ them to inform them of their behavior. “It is then up to the communities to establish or not these civil servants“explains Didier Mercier-Lachapelle
The training center will not take other sanctions considering that the facts committed were committed outside the training time, a way of clearing customs for the establishment. No prosecution has yet been initiated against these people from promotion 16.
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After the evening, the Poitevin restaurateur even ensures that he was ordered not to say anything. I was asked by SMS not to say anything, and municipal police officers in training in Poitiers took me to task during the music festival”he explains. “They asked me to stop talking to the media because it was creating controversy and I shouldn’t talk about all this.”
The restaurateur accuses another promotion of trainees for threatening him during the Fête de la Musique in Poitiers for having publicized the affair. The training center wouldn’t know.