INTERVIEW
Juliette Alpha discovered her vocation by watching Navarro and Julie Lescaut . In the police force for five years, she publishes today her first book, Vis ma vie de Flic, a woman in the police force (Hugo editions), under pseudonym. She tells her daily life to the police, its achievements, its setbacks, and all the situations however almost banal to which one does not get used. "For most people, emergency police is the gendarmes and the red light fines. In fact, it is the everyday police," she said at the microphone of Europe 1.
"You don't get used to discovering misery"
The police decided to write on December 1, 2018, after a long day spent framing the famous demonstration of yellow vests on the Champs-Elysées. "This is the first time I have witnessed such a violent demonstration, such scenes of urban guerrilla warfare," she said. It tells of the "madness of the crowd", the "violence" of a day "filled with emotion". "I was afraid for myself, for my colleagues," she admits. "No one is prepared for this. Colleagues who have been policing for 20 years have told me that they have never seen this," she said.
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Despite the violence and the weakness of the means - she says she buys part of her paraphernalia with her own money - Juliette Alpha does not regret her career choice. "Police-rescue is the Swiss army knife of the police," she smiles. Splashing around in a shop, family dispute, homeless man in bad shape, racketeered children after school, but also cardiac arrest on the public highway or discovery of a corpse at home: Juliette's missions are multiple, often difficult. "You never get used to working with people and discovering the misery, the slums in which they live", she underlines. "Ungrateful missions" which would make the police deserve, says Juliette, "to be sometimes honored".