The anger that has spread among the police is struggling to subside. After the outcry aroused on June 8 by Christophe Castaner's speech against racism within the police, announcing the planned end of the technique of arrest called "strangulation", Beauvau thought he had extinguished the fire, with the setting up of a working group to find an alternative method by September. But the discontent, first relayed by professional organizations, has changed in nature to give way to sporadic movements of field police or angry "cop women". Without an identified leader or claim, this discontent can swell and get out of hand. This episode is reminiscent of the mobilization of angry police officers which erupted in October 2016, the day after the attempted assassination at the Molotov cocktail of four of their colleagues from Viry-Châtillon.
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