the boss of the national police wants the release of the policeman placed in pre-trial detention

“Knowing in prison keeps me awake.” The Director General of the National Police (DGPN), Frédéric Veaux, granted an interview at Parisian, Sunday, July 23, the day after his visit to Marseille, with the staff of the anti-crime brigades (BAC). The latter denounce the incarceration of a policeman suspected of having beaten a man on the sidelines of the urban riots, which occurred beginning of July after the death of Nahel, a teenager killed in Nanterre by a policeman during a traffic check.

“In general, I consider that before a possible trial, a police officer has no place in prison, even if he may have committed serious faults or errors in the course of his work”considers Frédéric Veaux in The Parisian. “The police officer must account for his action, including before the courts, but we must also take into account the guarantees from which he benefits and which distinguish him from criminals or thugs”, he specifies. “Justice never yields to media or street pressure, it deals with cases. Once the emotion and anger have passed, we must provide ourselves with the technical and judicial means for this police officer to regain freedom”, adds the DGPN.

Police officers on sick leave in Marseille

In addition to the police officer charged and remanded in custody, youKings other civil servants of the South and Center BACs of Marseille were indicted for violence in a meeting by a person holding public authority with the use or threat of a weapon resulting in an ITT (total incapacity for work) greater than 8 days, but placed under judicial supervision. The victim, Hedi, a 21-year-old young man injured and hospitalized on the night of July 1 to 2, explained that he was beaten by a group of four to five people he had identified as police officers from the anti-crime squad, after being shot in the temple by LBD.

Pseveral hundred Marseille police officers, very revolted against the provisional detention of their colleague, went on sick leave. Others responded to the call of the SGP Police Unit union and put themselves in “code 562”, a police jargon which means that they only assume emergency and essential missions. “I don’t have precise figures on sick leave, they come to us later. But, in fact, the situation is still complicated in Marseille. These sick leaves do not extend to the rest of the territory, even if there are solidarity movements”, emphasizes Frédéric Veaux in this interview.