• In the midst of the controversy over "police violence", Emmanuel Macron announced on December 8 the launch of a "Beauvau de la sécurité" in order to "improve the conditions of exercise" of the police and "consolidate" their links with the French.

  • A week after a police demonstration in front of the National Assembly, which turned to the lax trial of justice, the consultation will focus this Thursday on relations with the judicial authority.

  • The police unions find on this occasion the Keeper of the Seals who was booed by the demonstrators.

    The magistrates' unions were not invited to the meeting.

It is a coincidence of the calendar.

Launched in early February, the “Beauvau de la sécurité” was interrupted a few weeks later by the health crisis.

This consultation on the police and the gendarmerie resumes this Thursday morning with a round table devoted to relations with justice.

The opportunity for the police unions, whose rally last week turned to the lax trial of justice, to find the Keeper of the Seals, Eric Dupond-Moretti, who had been booed by the demonstrators.

"The Minister of Justice is not going to have a good morning," predicts Patrice Ribeiro, general secretary of the Synergie-Officiers union.

The magistrates' unions, for their part, were not invited.

"We did not claim to be, it does not really make sense," said Katia Dubreuil, president of the Syndicat de la magistrature, who denounces a (new) operation of "communication" orchestrated by the ministry of 'Interior.

“From the start, the Beauvau of security has been done without justice.

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"The most important thing is that we manage to talk to each other"

In the entourage of the Keeper of the Seals, however, the importance of having "an exchange with the police" on the occasion of this "meeting planned for a long time" is emphasized. But will the climate be there for all that serene, eight days after the police officers questioned justice in the degradation of their working conditions? Gérald Darmanin and Eric Dupond-Moretti, both candidates for the regional elections in Hauts-de-France, have in any case endeavored not to give the impression of a divorce between the police and the courts. “The Minister reminded the National Assembly of the mutual respect shown by the two institutions. And it is necessary to make the share of things: not everyone shares the same position [hostile to justice] within the police unions ”, one wants to believe place Vendôme.

Deputy Secretary General of the SGP Police-FO Unit union, Grégory Joron believes that the whistles addressed to the Minister of Justice "are part of the game". “The most important thing is that we can talk to each other. "The union official wants the Minister of the Interior, who co-chairs this meeting, to make announcements at the start of the meeting so as" not to be focused on the demonstration last Wednesday "and the criticisms formulated by the police on" a penal response ”.

Several measures announced by the Prime Minister after the murder of Brigadier Eric Masson in Avignon have, however, already been voted on by the deputies: the extension to 30 years of the security measure for lifers for a crime on a police officer or a gendarme, the limitation of reductions in sentences for law enforcement aggressors, and the end of recalls to the law.

"The more things go, the more we want to simplify the criminal procedure"

"We must go even further," says Grégory Joron, who intends to insist on the need to punish more severely police attackers. "They will surely sweep our demand for minimum sentences, but there are other things to see," said the trade unionist. Gréogry Joron wants in particular that attackers of police officers sentenced to less than one year in prison will not benefit from a modified sentence. "It's easy to do, there is no need to legislate, it's just criminal policy," he emphasizes. In a press release, the Union of National Police Commissioners also notes that "the solutions can only go towards measures to simplify the criminal procedure, quite the opposite of previous reforms, and to improve and strengthen the criminal response" .

"The more things go, the more we want to simplify the criminal procedure, to automate it", regrets for her part Katia Dubreuil.

It takes the example of the fixed tort fine which allows the agents to sanction the drug users or - soon - the lookouts, without any control of justice.

And the trade unionist is worried about the measures announced under the influence of emotion which often “already exist”.

"Everyone knows what is needed: sufficient investigators, police officers working in police stations in good condition, magistrates and clerks numerous enough to judge cases ... But this is not the speech that" we want to hear right now.

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