INTERVIEW
The blur remains on the motives of the assailant who killed four people in the Paris Police Prefecture Thursday afternoon. This agent, in charge of computer maintenance within the Parisian intelligence department, had been employed since 2003. If he had converted to Islam a little more than a year ago, there is currently no room for action. evoke an act of radicalization.
"His wife was placed in custody to determine the family context, if there are elements that can provide explanations for this gesture," said Friday at the microphone of Matthieu Belliard, in the morning of Europe 1, Stanislas Gaudon, the National Secretary of the Alliance Union.
Without history, this individual was not the subject of any particular follow-up. "Agents are monitored from the point where there is evidence that there is a problem, but there needs to be a signal for that, like all the investigations that are conducted or investigations into personalities or sensitive sites ", specifies Stanislas Gaudon.
Avoid any amalgamation with police malaise
The union official, however, urges to avoid amalgamation with the police malaise and rising suicides in law enforcement, and against which precisely on Thursday parade some 27,000 officials (according to the organizers). "You have to be extremely careful before making assumptions, otherwise you risk tainting the procedure and investigations."
"It's a shock: I'm 25 years old in the Prefecture of Police, an act like this is unpublished", still recalls Stanislas Gaudon. "A murderous journey within the Prefecture of Police is a shock for all agents," he concludes.