Paris (AFP)
"If the facts are proven" in the case of the police officers accused of racism in the Paris court, the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin wants to know why the sanctions proposed by the IGPN are "not yet in place", he explained Tuesday.
In a report to his hierarchy in March 2019 revealed Monday by Streetpress, Chief Brigadier Amar Benmohamed denounced "racist remarks" made "regularly" on the part of a peacekeeper to "the address of the referees of foreign origin ". In the news site article, the police official said that "over a little over two years, more than a thousand defendants have been mistreated" at the court filing.
"If these facts are true, it will be up to me to know why the recommendations of the IGPN (General Inspectorate of the National Police) have not yet been implemented, why the sanctions, while it's been a big year, have not been taken. They are in progress I was told, "warned the Minister of the Interior when questioned by the National Assembly's law committee.
"A report was made on March 12, 2019, and the IGPN seized the prefect of police on June 6, 2019", he added.
"A disciplinary council will be held in September for one of the officials and administrative sanctions, reprimands and warnings, are being notified for five others" in view of "the seriousness of the alleged facts", announced to AFP on Monday. police Department.
"The IGPN noted completely inappropriate behavior on the part of six police officers: insults, aggressiveness, lies, disobedience (I read terms used by the general inspectorate). She proposed well before the revelation by the 'press article yesterday a referral to the disciplinary council with four direct sanctions and an alternative to disciplinary proceedings and in the four direct sanctions there is also Mr. Benmohamed ", reported Mr. Darmanin.
"Rarely, the IGPN made thirteen recommendations and asked the police headquarters to put them in place to put an end to the dysfunctions observed", he assured.
According to the minister it is also "a little reproached" to the chief brigadier to have denounced his colleagues "with delay".
Mr. Darmanin is to receive the patroness of the IGPN Brigitte Jullien at the "end of the week".
Tuesday, the Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigation for "willful violence by persons holding public authority" and "public insults" after the accusations of Mr. Benmohamed.
"If there are a few agents who have soiled the uniform of the Republic, they have nothing more to do in the police of the Republic", concluded Gerald Darmanin.
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