At the Call of Alliance, rallies were organized on Monday to protest against the indictment of the policeman author of the fatal shots during a check on April 24 in Paris. An initiative that divides within the profession.
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“To be condemned or be killed?” The question, on a black background, occupied the whole width of a tent banner between two posts, on Place Saint-Michel, a few steps from the old courthouse from Paris. At the appeal of the Alliance union, several hundred police officers protested on Monday, May 2, against the indictment for “voluntary homicide” of their colleague from the Cité security company, a unit of the prefecture of police police . During the night of April 24 to 25, this young 24 -year -old policeman had shot a vehicle after a refusal to comply, killing the driver, a passenger, and seriously injuring another.
Fabien Vanhemelryck, Secretary General of the National Alliance-Police Union, headlines the magistrates’ decision: “The police problem remains justice,” he said, echo his polemical remarks of May 19 2021, when the police unions had organized a demonstration under the windows of the Palais-Bourbon, where the bill “Confidence in justice” of the Keeper of the Seals, Eric Dupond-Moretti was examined. “Self-defense and presumption of self-defense: this is what we have been demanding for more than ten years in the face of an ultraviolent society,” he added, surrounded by representatives of Unsa-Police and Synergie, the union officers.
The magistrates unions were quick to react to these remarks: “The appeal to demonstrate against a court decision is particularly harmful and dangerous in a democracy. It only serves partisan interests”, regretted the ‘Union union of magistrates while the magistracy union questioned: “What does the” presumption of self-defense “claimed by certain police unions induced? In what political regime of the police can injure or kill and enjoy a presumption Who exempts them from explaining them? “
positions” a little radical “
Far from legal issues, the rally on Monday mainly had a heating tower before the professional elections scheduled for December, against the backdrop of deep union dissensions between alliance and SGP Police-Fo unit. Friday evening, a “vocal memo” recorded by Yoann Maras, head Ile-de-France d’Alliance, and broadcast with a group of members, had largely leaked. “The electoral campaign, it has just started, in fact (…) the ascendant and our position [will] take itself from now on,” said the union leader in a message of almost five minutes supposed to remain confidential. Assuming “somewhat radical” positions, Mr. Maras does not spare the “asshole” of unit, a “baltrringue union” that must be “dismantled”.
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