Facebook (illustration image). - AFP

The Paris prosecution announced on Friday to AFP the opening of a preliminary investigation for "public insult of a racist nature" and "public provocation to racial hatred", after the revelation of racist messages published on Facebook in a group bringing together members of the police.

The opening of this investigation comes a few hours after the prosecution was seized by the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner on these messages revealed Thursday by the online information site Streetpress.

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