"I expect exemplary sanctions in this area", if it is revealed that the police have exchanged racist messages on Facebook. This was stated by the interministerial delegate for the fight against racism, anti-Semitism and anti-LGBT hatred (Dilcrah), Frédéric Potier, on Sunday, on Franceinfo.
"Racism has no place in the police"
Asked about the revelation of the existence of a private group on Facebook reserved for the police and where racist messages are exchanged, asked for sanctions if the facts were proven. He underlines that "racism has no place in democracy, racism has no place in the police. " "When you are a civil servant, whatever your level, whatever your grade, you represent the Republic, you represent the State and you therefore have a duty of exemplarity," he adds.
"We must be very demanding of them, because they are the ones who exercise legitimate violence, the only legitimate one in a democratic society. They have a duty of exemplarity as civil servants, and has a fortiori as civil servants who exercise this type of prerogatives ", judged Frédéric Potier.
"We still have room for improvement"
According to him, "there is a significant generational gap between young peacekeepers who arrive in the national police and who are very sensitive to these questions, and other police officers who have been in service for a few years and who may be. - be less, because these questions were not addressed "before in the training. "There is this initial formation and obviously also a subject of permanent formation. We do it too, simply I believe that we still have progress to make in the matter", he added.
Friday, the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner seized justice and the parquet floor of Paris opened an investigation. In a forum published in the JDD, the LREM deputy for Ille-et-Vilaine Florian Bachelier and the lawyer Eric Dupont-Moretti ask to make public "urgently the sanctions for breaches". "Let us give statistical accounts, rethink identity checks, including thanks to digital," they add. According to the Interior Ministry, more than 23,000 protesters denounced the police violence and demanded "justice for all" on Saturday.