Rouen police officers, implicated in December 2019 for racist remarks exchanged privately on Whatsapp messaging, are referred to the disciplinary council following a disciplinary investigation, announced the police boss, Frédéric Veaux. The case started with the filing of a complaint by a black police officer, assigned to the Administrative and Judicial Assistance Unit, against six of his colleagues from Rouen after discovering that he was the target of racist remarks on their part .
A preliminary investigation had been opened and the IGPN (General Inspectorate of the National Police) had been seized "on the basis of various offenses, including aggravated non-public defamation and non-public provocation of discrimination", said in January 2020 the prosecutor of the Pascal Prache Republic.
Publication of remarks by Arte Radio
Thursday, Arte Radio broadcast the remarks of these police officers, giving back the echo to this affair at the time when the police are accused of violence and racism. The director general of the national police (DGPN), Frédéric Veaux, announced that "the disciplinary investigation (entrusted to the departmental directorate of public security) which had been immediately initiated had" concluded that "these officials were referred to the Disciplinary Board ".
Frédéric Veaux said he "would ensure that all the administrative consequences are drawn from these acts which obviously have no place in the national police and call for the most severe responses". The DGPN recalled that a preliminary investigation had been opened but that it was "not for it to comment on it". “The police in France are not racist. It suffers from these behaviors which do not correspond in any way to the republican values which it defends, "he added.
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