Soon to be judged in the Geneviève Legay affair, Commissioner Rabah Souchi could soon join the Nice municipal police force. The information, revealed by Nice morningis confirmed at 20 minutes by the city this Monday evening. He “actually applied for the open position of assistant to the director” and “was selected by the jury on September 28,” indicates the general director of services Bastien Nespoulous.
The latter specifies that the town hall is still awaiting “confirmation of the secondment requested from the Ministry of the Interior and the opinion of the ethics commission before initiating this recruitment”. The arrival of this national police officer, appointed head of the Nice local security service in 2016, then divisional commissioner in 2017, should in any case not take place without some upheaval.
Judged on January 11, 2024
Prosecuted for “complicity in violence by a person holding public authority”, Rabah Souchi must be judged on January 11, 2024 in Lyon, where the Geneviève Legay affair was dislocated. He is accused of having given “inappropriate” orders leading the police to charge during a banned yellow vest demonstration on March 23, 2019 in Nice, in which the septuagenarian participated. Jostled, the activist fell violently. She had several broken ribs and skull fractures.
“Today, I still have no sense of smell, I only feel salty and sweet tastes, I have lost 30% of hearing in my right ear and I stagger when walking,” she explained. has 20 minutes in October, specifying that she was “still psychologically scarred”.
“Capable of memorable bloodshed”
In its conclusions, the IGPN judged “the burden disproportionate, due to inappropriate orders”. And it was not the first time that the police had been seized in the wake of Rabah Souchi, judged “intransigent, but also very divisive, capable of memorable bloodshed”, according to The voice of the Northwhich recounted his time in Arras, between 2008 and 2012. There, according to the daily, he had “antagonized the unions and many police officers” because of “his methods considered authoritarian”.
Requested by 20 minutes this Monday, Rabah Souchi, had not responded at the time of publication of this article. According to Nice morningthe commissioner would in any case have already announced to his teams that he was leaving the national police.