During a television interview, Emmanuel Macron recalled that the police were not “above the law”, after the work to rule launched against the detention on remand of one of their own.
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“We are absolutely not asking to be above the law. The only thing we ask is not to be below the law“, reacted Monday July 24 on franceinfo Rudy Manna national spokesperson for the Alliance police union while Emmanuel Macron recalled during a television interview Monday that the police were not “above the law“.
Marseille police have expressed their anger after the detention of a BAC police officer, suspected of violence against a 21-year-old young man on the sidelines of the riots in early July. Three other police officers have been charged.
But the head of state said he understood the emotion of the police officers in view of the violence they suffered: “The President of the Republic had very very coherent remarks. He spoke of the tremendous work of the police and gendarmes during the riots. He also recalled that there had been more than 900 wounded, that the police gave their body and their flesh“, he greeted. These are words that go, according to him, “in the right direction“when Emmanuel Macron says that the police have worked”flat out” and that'”they restored the Republic, it’s only going in the right direction“, he says.
The words of Frédéric Veaux “honor us”
The police have received strong support, that of Frédéric Veaux, the director general of the national police who says he is “prevented from sleeping“by the provisional detention of the Marseille policeman.”The words of the Director General honor us, we salute his words“, did he declare. “He is aware of the difficulty of the situation. He is aware of the incredible disarray of all the police officers in France. He did it bravely and the police of France, believe me, of course heard him“, he asserted.
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Will the words of the Head of State be able to appease the anger of the police officers who have taken sick leave or launched a work-to-rule strike. “It is all the police officers who are on sick leave who will decide. It is not I who will decide that, I tell you very clearly, nor a medical organization. But we are obviously vigilant to what will happen “, did he declare.