After a tribute Sunday in Avignon to their colleague killed in this city on a point of deal, all the police unions suspended their participation on May 17 in the "Beauvau de la sécurité" and called, this Thursday, to a "march citizen ”on May 19 in Paris.

All the trade unions, ranging from Alliance to SGP Police Unit, to the unions of commissioners and officers, to those of administrative staff including those of the scientific and technical police, decided on these joint actions during a meeting. videoconference Thursday afternoon, explained several participants.

Unions received in Beauvau next week

Late Wednesday afternoon, Brigadier Eric Masson, 36, was shot and killed at a deal point in the center of Avignon, where he had been called with his crew. His colleagues retaliated, but failed to stop the gunman who was still at large on Thursday evening. The death of this 36-year-old policeman, after that at the end of April of Stéphanie Montfeture, administrative at the Rambouillet police station, by a radicalized Tunisian, plunged the whole of the police into amazement, even anger.

At the end of Thursday morning, from Avignon, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, organized a video conference with the police unions to assure them of his support and promise to receive them, in person, next week.

But already Thursday, the unions have decided, in addition to the tribute to Eric Masson Sunday in Avignon, to give voice to display their discomfort by a "march" on May 19 in Paris.

They also decided not to participate on May 17 in the "Beauvau de la sécurité" whose round tables at the Ministry of the Interior were to resume that day.

On the menu of that of May 17: the maintenance of order.

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