Police officers in Marseille during a pro-Palestine rally in Marseille. NICOLAS TUCAT / AFP
“The Minister of the Interior has not taken appropriate measures to ensure” such visibility, according to the Council of State.
The Council of State ordered this Wednesday the Ministry of the Interior to make effective the obligation imposed on the police to wear their identification number in intervention, the RIO, and to make it more visible.
“The Minister of the Interior has not taken appropriate measures to ensure effective compliance by members of the internal security forces with the requirement for effective and visible wearing of the individual identifier», indicated the highest administrative court in a judgment, requesting in particular that the “readability» of the RIO or “sufficient for the public“.
Also asked about the question of facial checks, the Council of State considered itself incompetent.
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