Agnès Thibault-Lecuivre, 41, succeeds Commissioner Brigitte Jullien, in post since 2019. She is the first magistrate to direct this institution criticized for her supposed complacency towards the police.
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For the first time in its controversial history, the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) sees a magistrate arriving in his management. Appointed to this sensitive post by the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, with whom she has been working since July 2020, first as a justice advisor and then as assistant director of cabinet, Agnès Thibault-Lecuivre, 41, will take office soon . His appointment decree was signed Wednesday July 20 in the Council of Ministers. She succeeds Commissioner Brigitte Jullien in post since 2019.
This appointment is an additional step in an already rich career. A graduate of the National School of Magistracy in 2006, Agnès Thibault-Lecuivre began her career at the Bobigny prosecutor’s office, first in the miners section, then to the Criminal Affairs Division before becoming a general secretary. It is there that she meets the current attorney general at the Court of Cassation, François Molins, then prosecutor in Bobigny.
She finds him in 2011 when he was appointed prosecutor of the Republic of Paris as a lecturer and communication. By her side, she is on the front line with the media on the resounding affairs of the moment, from the Cahuzac file to the attacks of November 13, 2015. Her rigor, her composure and his work force are then greeted internally. Anticipating the departure of François Molins, she joined in 2018 and for one year the communication agency Angie Consulting, founded by the former adviser of Bernard Cazeneuve, Clara Paul-Zamour. It is only after a brief passage as a spokesperson for the Ministry of Justice then occupied by Nicole Belloubet that she finally joins Gérald Darmanin.
“The best for the position”
The appointment of Agnès Thibault-Lecuivre comes when relations between the police and justice have deteriorated and the surveys conducted by the IGPN have been regularly challenged for several years for their partiality. Her contemptors considering that her organization and his hierarchical dependence at the Directorate General of the National Police (DGPN) help make her a tool for protecting the police rather than citizens.
By deciding to appoint a magistrate to his head, Gérald Darmanin sketches an opening which does not however go so far as to give his independence to the IGPN as had been mentioned after the Zecler affair (Michel Zecler, producer of Music, was beaten by police during his arrest), nor even to entrust the surveys relating to the most serious facts to the general inspection of the administration, as had envisaged, in his time, Christophe Castaner , his predecessor. A reform then with a bad eye by the DGPN which therefore retains all its authority over the institution.
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