INTERVIEW
Three days after the attack that killed four officials at the police headquarters in Paris and the opponents of the right demand his resignation from the Place Beauvau, Christophe Castaner acknowledged "flaws" and "dysfunction" on TF1. One question in particular remains unanswered: how the secret defense of the attacker, computer scientist since 2003 at the prefecture, could be renewed?
Very slow and bureaucratic procedures
Jean-Paul Mégret, deputy secretary-general of the independent union of commissioners, recalls on Europe 1 that "secret defense licenses and their renewal are very slow and bureaucratic procedures". "These are extremely complex tasks," he explains. "They require extensive research: we ask neighbors, old friendships ... All this is theory and we do it less and less."
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For him, "there were mistakes and behaviors a little too easy". But he sees in particular an explanation: "One wonders if, considering the scale of the task, one has enough people", he underlines.