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Fight against facies controls, strengthening of control systems, reduction of armament… Faced with the dysfunctions once again brought to light by the death of Nahel, “Libé” looked into ways to overhaul the institution. policewoman.
The police station cracks again. The death of Nahel, a Frenchman of North African origin killed a week ago by an official from the Paris police headquarters, and the violence that followed the tragedy, especially in working-class neighborhoods, testify to this. They question the behavior of the agents, and shed light on a fracture between a part of the population and its police forces. A reality often passed under the radar, because “the people who are most likely to like the police are the people who have to do with them the least”, recalls CNRS research director Sebastian Roché. How to solve the problem? During the last presidential campaign, Jean-Luc Mélenchon proposed a reform “from cellar to attic” of the institution. Faced with the scale of the project, specialists in the field would even be tempted to start with the cadastre and the foundations.
“The first thing would be for the executive to recognize the situation: the police have many problems, and the illegitimate violence of the police is systemic”, begins Emilie Schmidt, safety and freedoms advocacy manager at the Association of Christians for the Abolition of Torture. This lack of political will is one of the first obstacles to the reform of the institution. But a window may have opened. Faced with current events, several observers are calling for the repeal of