The apprentice policeman is crouching along a wall. A black t-shirt covers his head. A trainer from the Oissel police academy (Seine-Maritime) pours water on him and asks him, at the same time, to sing the Marseillaise. “Do you want to be a warrior? Show me you’re a warrior! » Asphyxiated, the peacekeeper student struggles to carry out this order when suddenly the instructor hits him in the stomach.
After the revelation, by The Parisian And BFMTV, of this video showing what looks like a simulated drowning, an administrative investigation by the IGPN, the “police of police”, was launched, we learned this Thursday. The national police also announced on
“This monitor police officer has already been reported in the past for this type of methods, which are unethical,” a police union source told AFP, specifying that he is a “monitor specializing in dismantling techniques”. ‘police intervention and shooting’. “It’s a slip-up, it does not correspond to the pedagogy taught within the school,” assured the same source.
An influential trade unionist, who spoke on condition of anonymity to 20 minutes, specifies that it was “not hazing”. “Nothing was imposed on the students, they were not harassed to do it,” he maintains. All of them were volunteers and many of them did not want to do it. The fact remains that this is not acceptable. It has no educational benefit. We are not preparing these young colleagues to join elite units, like the BRI or the Raid.”
“A real subject concerning supervision”
For this police officer cited above, this case shows “that there is a real issue concerning supervision in this school”, created in March 1998, and which trains around 900 students per year. “There have been quite a few stories in the past, it’s just a happy mess over there,” he assures. The establishment was particularly talked about in the press at the beginning of last October. An official from Licra, the international league against racism and anti-Semitism, went to the site to host a conference. Before his intervention, he came across a student walking with a copy of My Kampfthe book written by Adolf Hitler.
The institution’s communications department, contacted at the time by France 3, explained that the owner of the work had had it “since his high school years”, and that he had acquired it “on the advice of his History teacher to better understand the Shoah and the terrible system of extermination carried out by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. He had to “lend it to another student at the school, defender of the LGBT community, who wanted to document the homosexual condition suffered under Nazism”. The incident earned the students a reminder of ethics.
“Several investigations have already been carried out”
In 2021, it was a rape case that shook the establishment. A student filed a complaint against one of her classmates who allegedly sexually assaulted her one night after an alcoholic evening. A judicial investigation, still in progress, has been opened on the charge of rape, according to France Bleu. The student suspected of the acts was placed under judicial supervision.
One year earlier, the site actu.fr revealed that police officers, trainers in intervention techniques and safety (FTSI) denounced the management methods of the management of the establishment, deemed “dictatorial” and “catastrophic”. The Unsa Police union took up pen to write to the central director of recruitment and training of the national police. The organization reminded him that “several investigations have already been carried out within this structure, and have demonstrated failings, both ethically and professionally”.