"Each fault, each excess, each word, including racist expressions" will "be the subject of an investigation, a decision, a penalty," Christophe Castaner promised this Wednesday before the senators. He reacted to the demonstrations of the previous day to denounce the police violence, especially in Paris at the call of the family of Adama Traoré.
"I am, on this subject, intransigent," continued Castaner, adding: "The requirement that we have vis-à-vis the police officers who are at fault is to guarantee the serenity of the work of the whole of the police and of the gendarmerie, guarantee the defense of this republican police force, which daily combats racism, combats anti-Semitism and undertakes to defend the honor of the Republic ”.
40 months in prison in Marseille
Responding to Senator Olivier Léonhardt (RDSE), the minister argued that it was "not a question of making amalgams, but (...) denouncing any comments and any behavior. If there is a fault, it must be penalized and they are penalized ”.
He stressed that Defender of Rights Jacques Toubon, in his report submitted a few days ago, had pinpointed facts going back several years for which police officers had been sentenced to 4 months in prison. He also cited the case of a police officer in Marseille who was sentenced to “40 months' imprisonment” for “having forcibly transported someone under control outside of Marseille”. "These facts are unacceptable and are punished," added Christophe Castaner.
Stressing that "reality does not happen on social networks", the Minister of the Interior mentioned a recent study by the University of Mont-Blanc on "48,134 people", according to which "85%" of those questioned had a "positive opinion" of the police.
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