Darmanin wants the obligation to blur the faces of police officers in the dissemination of police images -

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While he came to close the 9th Congress of the Unsa Police Thursday, Gérald Darmanin announced Thursday his desire to prohibit televisions and social networks from broadcasting, without blurring them, "images showing the faces" of the police officers in operation , and allow the distribution of videos produced by the police.

The Minister of the Interior pledged to respond favorably to these recurring requests from the unions: "No one will be able to prevent people from filming", he warned, but "I retain the idea of ​​forcing TVs and social networks to not broadcast the images of the faces of the police, but to blur them ”.

Pedestrian cameras expected

"We must prohibit the dissemination of images of faces", insisted Gérald Darmanin, affirming that he "did not want the CRS and mobile gendarmes to wear the balaclava".

Faced with the increasingly frequent distribution of police intervention videos implicating agents, the unions are also demanding numerous pedestrian cameras and the possibility of also broadcasting their images, which is currently prohibited.

President Emmanuel Macron has promised to generalize them by July 2021, recalled the minister, stressing "the difference in treatment between the police and (...) the offenders who broadcast the videos".

The minister hoped that the images from these pedestrian cameras could be broadcast, that the police could “work with these images”.

Currently, these videos are time-stamped, located and the camera wearer identified.

“Viewing images is only possible after transfer by authorized personnel.

They are kept for six months, longer if there is an administrative or judicial procedure, ”a police source explained.

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