"Zero tolerance for racism". Faced with the multiplication of demonstrations against police violence, the Minister of the Interior assured during a press conference wanting to "improve the ethics" of the police. The Minister of the Interior said that a suspension would be "systematically considered for every suspected suspicion" of racism.
Concerning the techniques of arrest, the "method of the catch by the neck", that is to say the strangulation, will be abandoned and will no longer be taught during training in police and gendarmerie schools. “No one should risk their life during an arrest. It is a method that involved dangers, "said the minister, adding that it would also be prohibited for a police officer or gendarme to" lean on the neck or neck "of a person during an arrest.
Christophe Castaner has also decided to embark on an “in-depth reform” of the IGPN, the police force, and the IGGN, its equivalent for the gendarmerie. "The reform that we are initiating inspections should allow more consistency, more collegiality between these inspections and above all more independence in their action vis-à-vis the services".