Taken up against Macron, police unions call for a strike

Nearly 90 rallies are planned for Saturday in France against the "Global Security" law, to which will join the mobilization against precariousness.

In Paris, it will be at 2 p.m., for a departure from the Porte des Lilas to the Place de la République, a procession under close surveillance after the clashes during the Place de la Bastille dispersion of the march last Saturday.

On Friday, during his interview with the online media "Brut", Emmanuel Macron returned at length to the issue of police violence and the fight against discrimination.

He announced the establishment of a platform where victims can testify about what happened to them.

An announcement that does not get through to some police unions interviewed by Europe 1.

"We would have preferred support"

There are even indignant reactions from the two main unions of peacekeepers, the bulk of the troops, those who are on the front line and who carry out these checks every day.

According to Stanislas Gaudon, general delegate of the Alliance union, the words of the Head of State went very badly with them.

"He shed light on what would be institutionalized facies checks, explaining that when you are not white, you are the victim of facial identity checks. The police on the ground do not understand this about-face of the President of the Republic. We would have preferred to have support rather than accusations and especially to agree with those who accuse us every day of committing non-ethical, non-regulatory and punishable misdeeds of the penal code ", he regretted.

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Call to stop identity checks

Same arguments with the majority union Unit-SGP-Police which asks what statistics Emmanuel Macron is based on.

On the other hand, union representatives welcome the confirmed generalization of pedestrian cameras, but in the meantime, they call on their colleagues to no longer carry out identity checks on the ground.