Illustration of the police union, Alliance.

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  • Many Internet users were indignant at the creation, at the beginning of the week, of a fund in support of the police officers involved in the Michel Zecler affair.

    Seeing it relayed on social networks by Alliance, users unfairly attributed its creation to the second union of peacekeepers.

  • According to Alliance, members of the police brigade of the 17th arrondissement of Paris, from which the indicted agents come, are at the initiative of the pot launched to help them pay their legal costs.

  • If it collected more than 14,000 euros in less than twenty-four hours, it was suspended by the site "Le Pot Commun" because it did not correspond to its conditions of use.

Has the Alliance police union really created a pot to support the police in the 17th arrondissement of Paris involved in the beating of Michel Zecler?

In any case, this is what certain Internet users denounce, screenshot of the union's Facebook account in support.

Alliance was then the relay of the pot, entitled: “For our colleagues Philippe, Pierre and Aurélien of the BTC17.

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In this Facebook post, a user accuses the police union Alliance of being behind a pot in support of the BTC17 police officers involved in the beating of Michel Zecler - Tom Hollmann

While two of the four police officers involved in the case were remanded in custody on Saturday, the Alliance union points in its publication - since suppressed - the need for support of the agents charged: "In the context of the presumption of innocence , our colleagues in the 17th arrondissement of Paris need your help more than ever for the legal aspect (legal costs, lawyer, etc.).

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Internet users were moved that such a pot could exist while the one launched in 2019 for the benefit of Christophe Dettinger - a former professional boxer subsequently sentenced to one year of imprisonment for having violently hit two gendarmes during act 13 "yellow vests" - had been quickly suspended by the Leetchi platform.

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Yvan Assioma, national secretary of Ile-de-France of the Alliance union, denies the involvement of his organization in the process: “This fund is not our initiative, it was launched by our colleagues of the BTC17 (territorial contact brigade of the 17th arrondissement of Paris).

We only relayed it, because it seemed normal to us to support our colleagues and their families on the judicial aspect of the case ”.

Launched Monday evening, according to the union delegate, the pot would have collected nearly 14,000 euros in less than twenty-four hours.

Alerted by reports from Internet users, the “Le Pot Commun” site suspended the prize pool and reimbursed the participants, judging that it did not correspond to its general conditions of use.

The Alliance union subsequently suppressed its publications while promoting it.

In a Twitter post, Le Pot Commun announces that the pot in support of the BTC17 police officers has been suspended - Tom Hollmann

Faced with the removal of the pot, the Alliance union redirected the police officers of the 17th arrondissement to the Amicale de la police nationale, an association under the 1901 law. “The association is working to set up a support fund of the same type as that launched by Renaud Muselier, in 2019 ”, indicates Yvan Assioma.

At the time, the president (LR) of the regional council of Provences-Alpes-Côte d'Azur was at the initiative of a fund to support the police to compete with that launched a little earlier by " yellow vests ”for the benefit of Christophe Dettinger.

The pot launched by Renaud Muselier had then raised more than 1.5 million euros and was mainly intended for the Amicale de la police nationale.

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