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Brigitte Jullien, Director of the IGPN at the Ministry of the Interior, June 13, 2019 in Paris. STEPHANE OF SAKUTIN / AFP

The discovery of Steve Maia Caniço's body coincided with the delivery of the IGPN's report, the police of the police, on the circumstances of the young man's death. An extremely controversial report, even mocked on social networks, because it establishes no link between the intervention of the police on the evening of the Music Festival and the death of Steve Maia Caniço. Faced with these criticisms, IGPN Director Brigitte Jullien and Comptroller General David Chantreux both expressed themselves in L'Obs.

The message that Brigitte Jullien and David Chantreux wanted to convey is clear: according to them, the report of the Inspectorate General of the National Police does not clear the police present on the night of the Music Festival in Nantes.

The two Police Policy Executives simply say they do not have enough evidence to say that the police would be involved. They also put the very critical reactions on the account of a form of disappointment: " the people were waiting for a condemnation of the police, no other answer was understandable at that time. In any case, that's what Brigitte Jullien says.

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Another point on which the IGPN was extremely criticized: no civilian witness was interviewed to write the report. A gap that could be explained by the fact that the administrative inquiry is centered around the administration's agents, that is to say, the police present and the related evidence, for example, the radio recordings of the evening. -the. According to David Chantreux, the participants in the party and other witnesses will be heard during the judicial investigation .

And then, this interview was also an opportunity for the director of the IGPN to defend the existence of police policies, questioning for several days. She concludes that the control of law enforcement by their peers is " essential ".

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