- In a handrail that leaked on social networks, police wrote not to have arrested a passerby who insulted them "in order to avoid any possible riot or future accusation of racism".
- The communication service of the national police confirms that the handrail exists.
- A union source sees these lines as an expression of "dissatisfaction".
Police officers, insulted by a passer-by, who do not arrest him "in order to avoid any possible riot or future accusation of racism". This surprising conclusion from a police handbook has been circulating on social media since Tuesday. It has alerted Internet users, who are questioning the authenticity of this document.
According to this report, police were driving on Tuesday in La Rochelle, when, a little after 3 p.m., they met a young man who shouted "ACAB" [acronym for "All cops are bastards", "all the cops are bastards"] with several times. The police stop and control him.
The police then write: "given the current national situation, let us inform the individual that his outrageous and provocative behavior is not acceptable and intolerable towards the police officers and let him insult us copiously during the control. Let us put the individual back on his bike, greet him politely and wish him a good end of the day. No arrest in order to avoid any possible riot or future accusation of racism. "
The SICOP, communication service of the national police, confirms to 20 minutes that this handrail exists and specifies that a report was drawn up in parallel. The controlled individual will be summoned for contempt.
A union source also confirms to 20 Minutes that the events went well on Tuesday. As for the last lines of the document, this source sees it as an expression of "dissatisfaction". "There is beginning to be a growl," she recalls.
Police have expressed their anger in recent days at the new measures announced by the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner. This Thursday, a hundred of them demonstrated in Roubaix, ironically wearing unicorn masks. They were several tens Wednesday in Nice. Christophe Castaner had asked Monday that a suspension be considered "for each proven suspicion of racist acts or words". He also announced the end of the so-called key throttling technique.
Faced with this movement, the director of the national police wrote to his staff on Thursday. "In the face of the confusion and the amalgams maintained by a minority, I share with you the feeling of a profound injustice", writes Frédéric Veaux. Police unions must be received this Thursday and Friday by Christophe Castaner.
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