Reform of judicial police: unprecedented mobilization in Paris to protest against project

Increased, civil servants of the Paris police headquarters, which is not concerned by the current reorganization, joined the protest movement, Tuesday October 11

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reassure. Explain. By dismissing Eric Arella, boss of the judicial police (PJ) in twenty-one departments in the south of France, the Ministry of the Interior undoubtedly underestimated these two basic principles of crisis communication. And transformed an eminently technical question, which hardly fascinated crowds, into a subject of opinion, with questions to the government, stands and press releases.

Tuesday, October 11, 200 civil servants gathered in front of 36, rue du Bastion, headquarters of the Parisian PJ, in support of the protest movement of their colleagues in several provincial cities, and even as the prefecture of police of Paris is not concerned by the current reform project. “We cannot say that this mobilization is unexpected,” says Yann Bauzin, president of the National Association of the Judicial Police. The PJ spirit is precisely this permanent responsiveness and this solidarity. It should not surprise anyone, and Especially not our hierarchy, which the PJ can react thus when we threaten its existence. “More surprising, on the other hand: in Paris, magistrates and lawyers joined the police rally. The National Conference of Prosecutors General, for its part, called for a “suspension” of the reform.

Admittedly, the sling organized on Thursday October 6, by 200 officials at the headquarters of the PJ of Marseille during the arrival of the director general of the national police (DGPN) Frédéric Veaux, who was to decline his reform project there, could hardly remain unanswered. The broadcast on the social networks of the video of this sequence, where the police stand, silent and the arms crossed, facing Mr. Veaux, himself a figure of the PJ, turned out to be too viral, too devastating so that Place Beauvau remains silent. But the express eviction of Eric Arella, senior highly estimated police officer of his Marseille troops, acted as a powerful mobilization lever.

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For several months and the announcement of the creation of “departmental departments of the national police”, the PJ fears to lose its independence and the high level of technicality which it claims in the fight against organized crime, for To be entrusted with more common surveys, the resolution of which would help reduce the voluminous stock of current business. It also fears that its freedom of action is limited to the borders of each department, when the most structured criminal groups are mobile and extend their ramifications through the territory and abroad.

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