Alliance Secretary General Fabien Vanhemelryck on November 27, 2020. -

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Alliance will participate in the "Beauvau de la Sécurité".

The union organization gave its agreement on Tuesday, after the Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin accepted the conditions set by the union.

Alliance and Unsa, two of the main unions among the peacekeepers, had set several conditions on Tuesday for their participation in this major conference devoted to the police announced by Emmanuel Macron.

The unions normally had until January 10 to give the Home Secretary a response on their participation in the debate, which is to be launched this month.

The addition of an "eighth site"

The two unions demanded guarantees on the free public transport beyond the simple return trip to work / home, a subsidy for their mutual and especially commitments on the criminal response, such as the introduction of minimum sentences in cases of attacks on police officers, going beyond the announced creation of a “penal response observatory” (penalties incurred, penalties pronounced, penalties actually served).

In a letter addressed to Alliance and which AFP has taken cognizance of, Gérald Darmanin pledged that "the question of the relationship with the judicial authority" is "integrated" into the conference as "8th site".

He also specified the terms and schedule of free public transport, and the mechanism relating to the mutual.

" The door is open "

Asked by AFP, Alliance general secretary Fabien Vanhemelryck welcomed the minister's response, seeing the 8th site as the beginning of a response to the union's request for minimum sentences.

"The door is open," he said, announcing his participation in the "Beauvau de la sécurité".

Unsa's response should be the same, with the minister responding to them in roughly identical terms.

He also promised this union, according to Unsa, to "maintain a high level of protection for police officers in intervention" - while the union is in the majority among the CRS.

The people in charge of Unsa police are to meet in the afternoon to give their answer.

In December, Alliance and Unsa had expressed their refusal to participate in this debate in reaction to remarks by the head of state during an interview with the online media Brut.

Emmanuel Macron had recognized facial checks and violence on the part of some police officers.

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