The prefect of Paris police Didier Lallement addressed this Tuesday his support to the police facing "accusations of violence and racism". Rallies denouncing "police violence" are announced in an international context marked by the American riots. "I know the punishment that is yours before the accusations of violence and racism, repeated endlessly by social networks and certain groups of activists," Didier Lallement wrote in an email, according to information from Médiapart confirmed by The police headquarters.
“For the French citizens that we are, an accusation is not enough to make a truth. The Paris agglomeration police are neither violent nor racist: they act within the framework of the law for the freedom of all, ”he wrote in this email to the 27,500 police officers in the agglomeration. “I will not allow an institution whose role in the great moments of the history of this country has been essential to soil. There is no race in the police, no more than racialized or racist oppressors. There are civil servants who are committed to freedom, equality and fraternity and that on a daily basis! ", He adds.
"Republican bulwark" against delinquency
"If some of us fail in the requirement of impartiality and excellence which is ours, they will be sanctioned as they have been to date", according to Didier Lallement. "But I will not accept that a few individual actions call into question the republican bulwark that we are against delinquency and those who dream of chaos and anarchy," warns the prefect of police.
These statements come as Sunday was held in Bondy (Seine-Saint-Denis) a rally to demand "justice" for a teenager of 14 years seriously injured in the eye after a police arrest. At the end of May, the singer and actress Camélia Jordana started the controversy by declaring that "men and women who go to work every morning in the suburbs (...) are massacred for no other reason than their skin color".
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