Illustration of a police patrol, here in Rennes.

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C. Allain / 20 Minutes

  • 12,000 police and gendarmes will be mobilized to ensure compliance with the curfew announced by the President of the Republic on Wednesday evening.

  • They will be responsible for ensuring that people traveling between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. are in possession of a certificate justifying their exceptional travel.

  • For their unions, these controls represent increased risks of aggression, in particular “night-time”.

Last spring, they were on the front line to ensure that containment was respected.

From Saturday, the police will once again be fully mobilized to enforce the curfew rules, detailed this Thursday by the government.

In total, 12,000 police and gendarmes will be "specially responsible", between 9 pm and 6 am, to ensure that the people checked are in possession of a certificate justifying their trip, said the Minister of the Interior.

Any offender is liable to a fine of 135 euros and, in the event of a repeat offense, to "six months' imprisonment and a fine of 3,750 euros", warned Gerald Darmanin.

The police unions are already expecting complicated nights in the cities concerned.

“Most of the decent people will respect this curfew.

Our difficulty, in Ile-de-France, is that we will be confronted, as at the time of confinement, with a delinquent population that does not already respect the rules, explains Yvan Assioma, national secretary of the Alliance union for this region. .

It is to be bet that this curfew will be of no use at all vis-à-vis those.

"And to add:" As the news of recent days reminds us, the job of policeman at night is particularly difficult, they are confronted with more and more violent people.

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"Night work is dangerous"

Several police officers were indeed injured or targeted during recent night missions.

"In Champigny-sur-Marne, it is the night brigade which was targeted by the mortar fire," notes Linda Kebbab, national representative of the SGP Police-FO Unit union.

“Night work is dangerous.

Colleagues are forced to be on guard at all times.

By enforcing the curfew, they have more reasons to control a person, and therefore to expose themselves to violence, rebellions, outrages.

They will expose their lives much more, ”fears the trade unionist.

All the more so as, according to her, the “night people” will not be numerous enough to carry out this mission, which is added to the others.

In normal times, “in the Paris region, they do not equip enough night patrols to meet needs, points out Linda Kebbab.

However, as a trade unionist, it would annoy me if day colleagues were forced to go to work at night all because the staff are not large enough due to staff reductions.

There aren't enough of them during the day anyway.

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A bonus for "night people"

Is it to avoid alienating the “night people” that Gérald Darmanin this week announced the creation of a bonus for them when it had been demanded for a long time by the unions?

The officials concerned, who have multiplied the demonstrations in recent months, will receive an average of 60 to 100 euros more per month.

"I actually asked myself the question," points out the unionist from the SGP Police-FO Unit.

But, says Linda Kebbab, "the meeting with the minister had been scheduled for at least two weeks, and at that time there were no discussions on the curfew."

Chance, in any case, does things well.

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