Yanis Darras 09:04, February 20, 2024, modified at 09:08, February 20, 2024
The national delegate of the SGP Police-Force Ouvrière Unit union Linda Kebbab was the guest of La Grande interview Europe 1-CNews. At the microphone of Sonia Mabrouk, she returned to the opening of the trial of the alleged killer of Eric Masson, a police officer killed in Avignon in 2021. “He was shot like a dog,” she saddens.
His murder caused shock waves. During a check on a deal point in the city center of Avignon, Eric Masson, a 36-year-old police officer, was shot and killed, while another of his colleagues was injured. Almost 3 years after the events, the trial of the main suspect, a young man aged 19 at the time of the events, opens this week.
Growing risks
Invited this Tuesday to the microphone of La Grande interview Europe 1-CNews, the national delegate of the SGP Police-Force Ouvrière Unit union Linda Kebbab does not hide the trauma that this affair has left within the police. “When we learned the facts, we were all in denial. And today, seeing the photo of Eric Masson, we realize that we are still a little traumatized,” she explains to microphone of Sonia Mabrouk.
“Often in the imagination, we imagine that the police are in danger when they go to a hostage situation, for example, when they are part of the intervention forces. In reality, it is often the everyday police who faces the risk of serious injury and death", continues the police officer, visibly worried about the growing risks on the ground.
“We are deeply affected”
"You know, we are in the heart of the city of the Popes, in a medium-sized town which is not the most criminogenic in the country. The police are initially called for a simple dispute which they do not notice when they arrive. Being on site , they finally see that there is a narcotics point like there are tens of thousands of others in France. They do a very ordinary check and one of them is shot, I'm sorry to say , like a dog. Eric Masson is shot like a dog by a weapon of war, like a dog by a man who had been convicted multiple times,” insists Linda Kebbab at the microphone of Europe 1.
“We are deeply affected because we all started like that on the public highway, carrying out control missions over drug trafficking following disputes and at any moment, we know that it could happen to us. happened to a police officer described as honest, loyal, courageous, a father of two daughters who today are orphans, quite simply because their father simply did his job in France in 2021" she concludes.