the transition to emergency attack “is perfectly logical”, believes David Le Bars, secretary general of the SCPN

He is “perfectly logical and legitimate” that France is going through an emergency attack, said Friday October 10 on franceinfo David Le Bars, secretary general of the Union of National Police Commissioners (SCPN), while the government decided to raise France’s alert level by “emergency attack” after the knife attack by a man suspected of having been radicalized which left one dead and three injured in a high school in Arras (Pas-de-Calais).

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This emergency attack “means more mobilization of internal security forces and more massive reinforcement of the military on Vigipirates and Sentinel patrols, which makes it possible to better cover the terrain and better distribute sensitive areas”, explained David Le Bars. The commissioner adds: “We are in a period of threats.” But according to him, “when an event has not taken place for a long time, sometimes, perhaps the collective memory tends to forget this threat”.

An S form does not allow the person to be expelled or imprisoned.

As for the question of why the young man arrested, a 20-year-old Chechen, was not deported despite his monitoring by the intelligence services, David Le Bars explained what precisely an S file was. “does not allow the person to be expelled or imprisoned”.

“An S form is not a judicial measure, nor an expulsion order. It is a working form, it is supposed to allow the services to better understand what people are doing and to know where they are moving. “

David Le Bars, general secretary of the SCPN

at franceinfo

On strengthening the security of educational establishments, requested by Gabriel Attal, the Minister of National Education, “One should not lie”declared the secretary general of the SCPN. “Some monitoring will be static”but “there will also be more discreet surveillance [avec] unmarked workforce”added David Le Bars.