After Bordeaux, Nancy or Toulon, some 200 officers of the judicial police (PJ) mobilized Thursday in Marseille against the reform wanted by the Minister of the Interior, who according to them risks "crushing" their know-how.

In front of the Evêché, the police station, they gathered in uniform, their "judicial police" vest crossed out with a black band, on the occasion of the arrival of the Director General of the National Police (DGPN), Frédéric Calves, noted an AFP journalist.


#GrosseColère #PoliceJudiciaire #Marseille Spectacular mobilization of the investigators of the Pj Marseille following the visit of the Director General of National Police Frédéric Veaux, to say no to the reform in progress.

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They observed a minute of silence, wearing a large stuffed tiger, a nod to their emblem and the nickname of Georges Clémenceau who created the ancestor of the PJ, the regional mobile police brigades, at the beginning of the 20th century. say "tiger brigades".

Freezing atmosphere

On leaving the meeting, Frédéric Veaux crossed the corridors in an icy atmosphere, forced to split a hedge of demonstrators arms crossed and silent, according to a video sent to AFP.

“I entered the PJ 20 years ago, I am a child of the PJ.

This reform would like to dilute us under the departmental direction, we will be crushed in the mass.

We will no longer be able to focus on investigations into the delinquency of organized crime, which take time, ”anonymously explained a group leader of the anti-narcotics office (Ofast), representative of the national association of the judicial police ( ANPJ), an “apolitical” and “non-union” structure created in August in opposition to the reform.

"During the meeting, he did not move one iota, despite the concerns expressed by the various directors of the region he met", reported this group leader of Ofast.

Support actions were also held in Montpellier, Toulouse or Rennes, according to him.

A "problematic" reform for Dominique Laurens

Led by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin and Frédéric Veaux, the project plans to place all the police services of a department - intelligence, public security, border police (PAF) and judicial police (PJ) - under the authority of a single departmental director of the national police (DDPN), reporting to the prefect.

The prosecutor of Marseilles herself was worried at the end of September about this reform, because "the choice which was made to build a device on the department seems to us indeed problematic on the operational relevance of identifying these [criminal] teams who are extremely shifting and which quite obviously free themselves completely from these administrative borders.

“Who will soon be able to deal with our investigations of social and tax fraud, our investigations that we wish to initiate on the large money laundering circuit or on the embezzlement of public funds?

“Asked Dominique Laurens again.

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