A French policeman. (drawing) – LUCAS BARIOULET / AFP
Gérald Darmanin brings his “total support”. The names and photos of police officers, and their families, were discovered plastered in several halls of buildings in Épinay-sur-Seine, in Seine-Saint-Denis, on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, announced this Thursday the Minister of the Interior.
“I want to say to what extent these behaviors of disclosure of the personal life of these police officers and these gendarmes, by putting forward their close relations, their personal photos […] is a shame ”, lambasted the tenant of Beauvau, in the National Assembly, on the occasion of the final vote of the comprehensive security law. “I obviously condemn these completely reprehensible acts and I would like to reiterate the extent to which [ils] are the children of the Republic, ”he continued.
The minister referred to this disclosure to defend the famous article 24 of the text, rewritten but still controversial, which penalizes the malicious dissemination of the image of the police.
“A feeling of impunity for the dealers”, denounces a trade unionist
“A new course has been crossed,” denounced in a statement the union SGP Police Unit, which asks the “Minister of the Interior that everything be done to find the perpetrators.”
For Linda Kebbab, national delegate of the same union, this case shows that “the feeling of impunity of the dealers who spoil the lives of the inhabitants of the neighborhoods is more and more important, they no longer hesitate to interfere in our private life. “. They are, she says, “little guys who are no longer afraid of the judiciary”. The trade unionist wants the administration “not to minimize” this kind of facts and to put in place “a real functional protection of the targeted agents”, “as soon as the facts are revealed”.
On Twitter, The police headquarters gave his “full support to the officials concerned”, indicating that the Prefect of Police and the police were going to lodge a complaint.