By completing a lightning and uncompromising investigation, which led to the indictment of four police officers, two of whom were placed in detention, after the "beating" of Michel Zegler in Paris, the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) has hit hard.
But without managing to silence the concert of critics, nor to raise the sword of Damocles which weighs on this institution forged in 1986 in a single body, so much feared by the police.
Before the law committee of the National Assembly on Monday evening, Gérald Darmanin defended the maintenance of this entity within the Ministry of the Interior.
"If the IGPN had been so bad, the prosecutor would not have seized it as he did in the case of the evacuation of the Place de la République or that of the 17th arrondissement"
, he said. declared.
On the other hand, on a possible
"evolution"
, it excludes nothing.
Attach this institution directly to the Minister of the Interior?
“It looks at itself,”
he said.
Put at its head
"someone who is not
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