Jean Castex will receive the police unions on Monday, a few days after the murders of a police officer in Rambouillet and a police officer in Avignon, we learned from Matignon on Saturday.

The Prime Minister had declared Friday that he would receive the police unions, along with the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin, "at the beginning of next week".

This meeting will take place Monday at 7.45 p.m., said the entourage of the head of government on Saturday.

Faced with "the urgent need to protect those who protect us", an additional 10 million euros will be released to "strengthen the security of police stations" and the generalization of individual pedestrian cameras will be implemented "this summer, ”Jean Castex announced on Friday.

At the end of the day in Avignon on Wednesday, a police officer sent with his crew to the scene of a gathering around a deal point was shot and killed by one of the people present.

The death of this 36-year-old policeman, after that at the end of April of Stéphanie Montfeture, administrative at the Rambouillet police station, by a radicalized Tunisian, plunged the whole of the police into amazement, even anger.

All the police unions called Thursday for a “citizens' march” on May 19 in Paris, after a tribute Sunday in Avignon to their colleague killed in this city, and decided to suspend their participation on May 17 in the “Beauvau de la security ".

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