Photomontages, racist messages, sexist and homophobic jokes, calls for murder ... Police and gendarmes regularly post racist messages and comments on a private Facebook group reserved for law enforcement, reveals an investigation by the Streetpress website. Called “TN Rabiot Police Officiel”, this group is made up of nearly 8,000 people, mainly police officers “and some gendarmes and members of the families of civil servants”.
In a context of mobilization against racism and police violence, Streetpress was able to infiltrate this closed circle and explained that to gain access to it, it was necessary to "tell the administrators of his promotion to the police or gendarmerie school, his registration number and write some jargon phrases from the "box".
"It's black with people!" " " No ! It's shit black! "
Created in December 2015, this Facebook page is presented as "a group of information and debates on public security and the reality of the work and missions of the police". In its description, it is specified that "any sexist, homophobic or racist allusion will also be erased, just like the advertisements or the systematic, repetitive and unauthorized promotions of other Facebook groups". However, many law enforcement officers regularly exchange racist, sexist and homophobic jokes and comments about police news and news.
Like the rally against police violence on Tuesday 2 June in front of the Palais de justice in Paris. The event is commented live by hundreds of members of the group. "Paris? I have a doubt that we are still in France ”. "It's black with people!" " " No ! It's shit black! "Comment several members, under the post of a photo showing the crowd that gathered on Tuesday nearly 20,000 people. "Always the same ones who defy all the prohibitions in this country. The stinking and immigrant leftovers who won't even make 1/10 of a quarter of that at home! “, Also releases another member of the group.
The remarks concerning police violence in the suburbs made by the singer and actress Camélia Jordana on the set of the show On n'est pas couché also drew many insulting comments. "My slut!" I poop on her and spread her all over her face!… ”, Wrote one. "She should have stayed on the sidewalk this whore!" Answers another.
"We don't need fragile items in the box"
We also find on the group many photo montages referring to tragic news. An electric transformer for the death of Zyed and Bouna in 2005. A post for the death of Sabri in Argenteuil on May 17. A door of a police vehicle for the crushed leg of a thirties in Villeneuve-la-Garenne in April. And a train for the death of Kémyl, 18, in Montigny-lès-Cormeilles on May 27, hit on the rails.
Some members of the group sometimes intervene to restore some order, says StreetPress. "You will be the first to cry that someone from the outside takes a screenshot and sends it to the right people!" You sometimes stretch the stick to get beaten! As if we didn't have enough worries like that! “, Explains a user. But these dissonant voices are quickly crushed by their colleagues for whom the group is akin to a stress reliever. "[A] pseudo-colleague who manages to defend these filthy sluts ... We don't need the fragile in the box," replied other members of the group.
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