Attempt at appeasement. Gérald Darmanin went this Tuesday morning discreetly to a police station in Marseille, the city from which the angry movement of the police had started after the incarceration of one of theirs, suspected of having seriously injured with an LBD, Hedi , a 22-year-old man, we learned from a police source. The Minister of the Interior had announced that he would go to this city to discuss with officials, without giving a date.
Gérald Darmanin arrived, without press, and unaccompanied by elected officials, at 10 a.m. at the 15th arrondissement police station, the same source added. He congratulated the officials who, on Sunday, seized 220 kg of cannabis in a city where many neighborhoods are affected by drug trafficking, the police source continued.
Coffee and informal exchanges
Then, “informally”, over a coffee, he exchanged for an hour with about sixty police officers from this police station who wanted it, according to the police source. “He came to greet the police officers who had made this seizure intervention [de cannabis] and it was very well perceived in the ranks of the police, ”explained to AFP Bruno Bartoccetti, in charge of the South zone at the union SGP Police FO Unit.
The anger of the police erupted after the placement in pre-trial detention, on July 21, of a policeman from the Bac de Marseille suspected of having seriously injured the skull Hedi, 22, on the sidelines of the riots in early July. His placement in pre-trial detention was upheld last week by the courts.
The minister’s visit came the day the Marseille prosecutor’s office announced the custody of five police officers from the Raid, an elite unit, in an investigation into the death of a 27-year-old man on the sidelines of the riots that broke out. after the death of Nahel, a young man killed by a policeman during a road check at the end of June in Nanterre.