The party at the Nîmes police school questions the level of recruits

Students from the Nîmes police school, in November 2016 -

• An administrative investigation was opened after the broadcast of a video showing students from the Nîmes police academy partying under curfew.

• The Minister of the Interior assured this Monday morning on BFMTV that the students concerned "will be excluded".

• For the unions, this incident reveals a drop in the level of people recruited.

A party organized in full curfew which could cost them dearly.

The images of this clandestine evening, in which students from the Nîmes police academy participated last Wednesday, have toured social networks, forcing the Minister of the Interior to react firmly.

"I am waiting for the report of the director general of the national police to tell me which students are concerned, and these students will be excluded," said Gerald Darmanin on Monday on BFMTV.

“You can't be a police officer and laugh at the rules you impose on others,” he added.

To be respected, you have to be respectable.

Based on the evidence, I will exclude these students from the national police uniform.

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It is 9:20 p.m. on Wednesday when two police officers from the canine police go to the kennel located in the grounds of the Nîmes police school.

A few minutes earlier, the President of the Republic announced, during a televised address, that the French would be confined again for several weeks from the following evening.

Suddenly, the two officials hear "screams and unusually loud music coming a priori from the stadium of the police academy", says one of them in a handrail consulted by

.

After cleaning the boxes and taking care of the animals, the two officials set off by car in the direction of the school guard post.

"Good profiles want less and less to come to the police"

In the descent of the stadium, they fall on "a hundred students".

Some, seeing them arrive, start shouting “Ara!

Ara!

»On several occasions, like the lookouts in the estates who alert the dealers to the presence of the police.

The two agents find themselves in the middle of a "crowd movement".

Participants "hooded" - "individuals devoid of any education" - curse, hiss and insult them.

The two policemen then decide to get out of their vehicle with a dog, which "has the result of dispersing all this crowd".

An administrative investigation was opened by the school the day after the events.

National Police School (ENP) of # Nîmes.

On October 28, about a hundred students took part in a clandestine party.

At around 9:20 p.m., alerted by music and howls, a patrol of a canine brigade moved on site.

The rest is ... amazing.

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In the police ranks, the incident is struggling to pass.

“That some wanted to party, we can understand, even if they must obviously be punished.

They are still students.

But those who insulted our colleagues, who behaved like delinquents, there is no debate, they have nothing to do with us!

», Explains to

Linda Kebbab, national representative of the SGP Police-FO Unit union.

For the trade unionist, this incident shows that new recruits do not always have the level required to join the institution.

“With the rotten working conditions, the level of wages in decline, the feeling of contempt, the good profiles want less and less to come to the police.

But we must respond to the urgency and to the demand of politicians "who announce additional recruitments," she continues.

"This should not turn against us"

“Some behaved like little thugs!

»Indignant another union source, sorry by the images of the evening.

Before adding: “There is a real recruitment problem.

Students are accepted even though they only have an average of 8 on the exam, that's not right!

There are lots of them.

In my day it didn't work like that.

In the midst of a terrorist period, this should not turn against us.

A student from the Nîmes police school, in his thirties, was also suspended in May 2017 for having circulated a Daesh propaganda video in his establishment.

He had been denounced to the school administration by his comrades.

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