In a letter addressed to Emmanuel Macron, the Alliance union, the majority among the peacekeepers, refuses to participate in the meetings announced by the President of the Republic to improve the conditions for the exercise of the police.
Alliance calls for the implementation of certain measures in advance.
The Alliance union, the majority among the peacekeepers, wrote to the President of the Republic on Monday to notify him of its refusal to participate in the "Beauvau de la sécurité", consultation on the police announced by Emmanuel Macron for January 2021. "Yet another one. seminar without concrete measures beforehand would be considered indecent, "wrote in this letter Fabien Vanhemelryck, general secretary of the union, listing a series of requests.
In the midst of the controversy over "police violence", Emmanuel Macron announced on December 8 the holding from January of a "Beauvau de la sécurité" in order to "improve the conditions of exercise" of the police and "consolidate" their links with the French.
Setting out its conditions, the Alliance union demands in particular, as a preliminary, an "irreducible minimum sentence for police attackers", the "blurring" of the police officers filmed and "social measures" including free transport.
An interview that does not pass
"Your words about the police implying that our colleagues would be racist or violent, aroused a stir, an anger never reached", adds the union, with reference to the statements of the Head of State to the online media Brut on the 4th December on the existence of facies checks.
"We therefore inform you that at the time of writing, we will not participate in the + Beauvau de la Sécurité + because the conditions for working there calmly are not met", writes the secretary general of Alliance.
Since Emmanuel Macron's interview with Brut, police gatherings have taken place in several cities in France.
Monday evening, a hundred police gathered in front of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
Earlier Monday morning, 130 Grenoble police officers had filed conventional termination requests in the prefecture to protest against the presidential "release" of the police.
The police unions are to be received on Friday by the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin.