Frédéric Veaux, the director general of the national police (DGPN), declared Sunday in an interview with the Parisian wishing the release of the policeman of the BAC of Marseilles, whose imprisonment since Friday aroused a movement of anger of the unions.
The police boss against the provisional detention of the Marseille BAC policeman. Frédéric Veaux, the director general of the national police, spoke in Le Parisien, while anger rumbles among the police officers of the BAC, after the indictment of four officials for police violence, on the sidelines of the riots of the month of July. One of them was placed in pre-trial detention at the Aix-Luynes penitentiary center.
“The knowledge in prison prevents me from sleeping”, declared Frédéric Veaux. “In general, I consider that before a possible trial, a police officer has no place in prison, even if he may have committed serious faults or errors in the course of his work”, adds Frédéric Veaux.
“But justice never gives in to media or street pressure, it deals with cases. The emotion and the anger passed, it is necessary to give the technical and legal means so that this police officer finds freedom , adds the DGPN.
Three police officers indicted for violence in meetings
Three other officials from the South and Center BACs of Marseille were indicted overnight from Thursday to Friday for violence in a meeting by a person holding public authority with the use or threat of a weapon resulting in an ITT (total incapacity for work) greater than 8 days, and placed under judicial control.
The victim, Hedi, a 21-year-old young man injured and hospitalized on the night of July 1 to 2, explained that he was beaten by a group of four to five people he had identified as police officers from the anti-crime squad, after being shot in the temple by LBD.
The center of Marseille and its shopping streets were the scene of urban riots after the death of Nahel, a teenager killed in Nanterre by a police officer during a traffic check.
The police chief traveled to Marseille on Saturday to meet the staff who were very upset against this placement in pre-trial detention of their colleague.
According to a union source, several hundred Marseille police officers went on sick leave. Others responded to the call of the SGP Police Unit union and put themselves in “code 562”, a police jargon which means that they only assume emergency and essential missions.
“I don’t have precise figures on sick leave, they come to us later. But, indeed, the situation is still complicated in Marseille. These sick leaves do not extend to the rest of the territory, even if there are solidarity movements”, underlines Frédéric Veaux.