Hervé C. had been suspended from his duties at the Paris police prefecture a few days after Mickaël Harpon, a computer scientist converted to Islam, had killed four of his colleagues.
Le Monde with AFP
A police captain, a suspended time for suspicions of radicalization just after the killing of the Paris police prefecture, in 2019, filed a complaint for “discrimination” with the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) against the Minister of the Interior of the time, Christophe Castaner, according to his lawyers.
According to the complaint, Revealed by release Monday, November 22 and consulted by the France-Presse agency, Hervé C. filed a complaint On 17 November for “discrimination due to the belonging to a specified religion” and “moral harassment” with the CJR’s requests Board, only jurisdiction empowered to continue and judge government members for crimes and crimes committed ” in the exercise of their functions “. He disputes his suspension followed by his transfer in another service that would be less sensitive, according to him unfounded.
“No proselytism”
41 years old, policeman since 2004 and converted to Islam, Hervé C. has been working since June 2019 in the automated national judicial file of terrorist offenses (Fijait) to the judicial police of Paris. Colleagues have “denounced” to his hierarchy as potentially radicalized on 6 and 7 October 2019, a few days after Mickaël Harpon, a computer scientist of the Paris police prefecture converted to Islam, killed four of his colleagues . Hervé C., defended by masters Hélène Jouny and Anass Khafif, was suspended by the Ministry of the Interior on October 28, 2019, then reinstated on February 28, 2020, but mutated as a Tax Fraud Group and VAT group.
In a brief addressed in June 2021 to the administrative court, which must decide on the vow of the captain to reintegrate the Fijait, the Ministry of the Interior evoked “a radical religious practice, incompatible with the life of the unit and Beyond even with the levels of secularism of its republican and public service missions “.
Now, points out Hervé C., a police policy report (the NPMI) rendered on 8 June 2020 as part of an administrative investigation, concluded that it had “brought to light any failure” Neither “no proselytism”, that the “feelings and concerns” of the agents did not seem linked “to factual and concrete elements”, and that his suspension “was not backed by any fact or contemporary behavior”.
According to him, the ministerial suspension decree is therefore “discriminatory because of religious affiliation” and its mutation has translated “the refusal of the Minister of the Interior to leave a person of Muslim confession in charge of the Fijait file “While he did not present” no sign of radicalization “and had received” excellent ratings “. Hervé C. also lodged a complaint against X at the end of October at the Paris Prosecutor’s Office for “Discrimination”.