A policeman makes an obscene gesture to the Google car in Roubaix.

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Google street

He's going to bite his fingers.

The North Departmental Directorate of Public Security (DDSP) announced on Tuesday that an investigation had been opened to try to identify the police officer who made an obscene gesture against the Google car.

The official's photo was relayed on social networks in mid-November, creating a rather embarrassing bad buzz for the institution.

On November 12, the “Best of Google maps” Twitter account published a photo spotted by an Internet user showing a police official awarding a double finger of honor to Google because it preceded him.

The scene took place in Roubaix and was recorded in Google's mapping system more than a year ago, in August 2019.

A complete blurring too late

Despite an update from last September, the image of the rude policeman was still visible on Sunday on the Google street view platform.

Since then, Google has applied a big blurring closet that hides the public official's raised eyes from chaste eyes.

Too late, however, the Internet never really forgets anything.

In the meantime, the DDSP of the North got wind of the case and took offense.

An internal investigation was opened to try to identify the agent with "individual behavior" condemned "necessarily" by the institution.

A gesture which, widely relayed on social networks, is indeed stain.

This did not prevent the DDSP itself from posting the photo in question on its Twitter account.

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