It’s a sentence that doesn’t get across. A volunteer deputy gendarme was suspended on Monday in Martinique, after having made “unacceptable” remarks according to the prefecture, during an altercation with independence activists on Sunday.
In a video widely shared on social networks, the soldier declared “it is thanks to us that you have the CAF and the RSA”, after having been insulted by independence activists, during an illegal gathering on agricultural land .
A “contempt” condemned by the prefect
The prefecture of Martinique condemned these remarks Monday, deemed “unacceptable” in a press release. “No territory of the Republic can be the subject of such contempt,” said prefect Jean-Christophe Bouvier, who asked the commander of the Martinique gendarmerie to “take the necessary measures to against this soldier.
General William Vaquette, commander of the Martinique gendarmerie, also condemned these comments and confirmed that sanctions had been taken. The 24-year-old volunteer deputy gendarme, recruited a year ago in Martinique after completing his six weeks of regulatory training, was suspended from his duties and will be sent back to mainland France while the disciplinary case is examined. according to the gendarmerie.
“At this stage, it is unlikely that his contract as a volunteer deputy gendarme will be renewed,” said General William Vaquette. According to the head of the Martinique gendarmerie, this is a firm measure, “because we must sanction all individual deviance to protect the entire body of the gendarmerie”.