The ouster of Eric Arella comes in the aftermath of a coup of the Marseille police officers, who organized, Thursday, a “hedge of dishonor” against the director general of the national police, Frédéric Veaux.
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Does the judicial police are going through the most serious crisis in its history since its creation in 1907? The Zonal Director of the PJ for the south of France, Eric Arella, was removed from his duties on Friday October 7 by the Director General of the National Police (DGPN), Frédéric Veaux.
This decision comes after the shine of 200 investigators, the day before, during Mr. Veaux’s visit to the premises of the Bishopric, the siege of the Marseille police. In the corridors of the building, civil servants of all grades, clothed in their black vest where the words “judicial police” appeared barred in mourning, organized a “hedge of dishonor” before the departure of the police of the police, who came to convince of the merits of his reform: the placement of all the police under the authority of a single chief in each department.
The project has been aroused strong resistance for several months on the part of the judicial police, who sees it as a real guardianship of his action. A video, which has become viral on social networks, shows the Marseille, cross -arms, standing, standing, in the corridors of the second floor of the siege of the Marseille police, while Mr. Veaux crosses the locals, the black eye.
“The heads fall”
“Such disloyalty is not acceptable,” said the General Directorate of the National Police on Friday, October 7, which stresses that “the results in Marseille are also bad with record homicide levels while the staff have been considerably strengthened “. “Veaux will not give any gift to anyone, the heads fall,” appreciates a senior police officer, for which “consultation, which has never been really on the reform menu, is now completely abandoned”.
The brutal dismissal of Mr. Arella resonates in any case as a signal and a severe warning addressed to the mutineers of the PJ. Until then considered a relative of Mr. Veaux, this high official “loyal, faithful and competent”, according to one of his peers, is replaced by Dominique Abbenanti, currently internal security attaché in Algiers and former police assistant director technical and scientific after having held several positions within the judicial police.
In a statement to the tone at the very least unusual, the National Association of the Judicial Police, created in mid-August to protest against the reform project, announced its intention to organize spontaneous rallies on Friday afternoon. “PJ investigators are mad and organize their leaders now!”, Specifies the press release, under the title “The DGPN declares war at the DCPJ [Central Directorate of the Judicial Police]”.
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