A police captain, suspended for suspicion of radicalization just after the killing of the police headquarters in 2019, lodged a complaint for "discrimination" with the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) against the Minister of Interior of the Christophe Castaner era, according to his lawyers.
According to the complaint revealed by Liberation and consulted on Monday, Hervé C. lodged a complaint on November 17 for "discrimination because of belonging to a specific religion" and "moral harassment" to the requests commission of the CJR, only jurisdiction empowered to prosecute and try members of the government for crimes and offenses committed "in the exercise of their functions".
He contests his suspension followed by his transfer to another service which would be less sensitive, according to him unfounded.
A truly radical religious practice?
Aged 41, a police officer since 2004 and a convert to Islam, Hervé C. had been working since June 2019 at the Automated National Judicial File of Perpetrators of Terrorist Offenses (FIJAIT) at the Paris judicial police. Colleagues "denounced" him to his hierarchy as potentially radicalized on October 6 and 7, 2019, a few days after Mickaël Harpon, a computer scientist from the police headquarters who converted to Islam, killed four of his colleagues.
Hervé C., defended by Ms Hélène Jouny and Anass Khafif, was suspended by the Ministry of the Interior on October 28, 2019, then reinstated on February 28, 2020, but transferred as head of the tax fraud and VAT group.
In a brief sent in June 2021 to the administrative tribunal, which must rule on the captain's wish to reinstate FIJAIT, the Ministry of the Interior referred to “a radical religious practice, incompatible with the life of the unit and even beyond. with the requirements of secularism of its republican and public service missions ”.
No evidence
However, underlines Hervé C., a police police report (IGPN) delivered on June 8, 2020 as part of an administrative investigation, concluded that it had "not brought to light any breach" or "any proselytism ”, that the“ feelings and concerns ”of the agents did not appear to be linked“ to factual and concrete elements ”, and that his suspension“ was not based on any contemporary fact or behavior ”.
According to him, the ministerial suspension decree is therefore "discriminatory on the grounds of religious affiliation" and his transfer translated "the refusal of the Minister of the Interior to leave a person of Muslim faith in charge of the FIJAIT file", then that he showed "no sign of radicalization" and had received "excellent marks".
Hervé C. also filed a complaint against X at the end of October with the Paris prosecutor's office for “discrimination”.
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