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Claire Hédon, the defender of rights who monitors the police

4/5/2023, 6:43:52 PM


PORTRAIT – Appointed by the Élysée in July 2020, she stood out for her critical outbursts against the executive.

This Thursday, Claire Hédon, accompanied by lawyers, will be in the command room of the Paris police headquarters.

She will be able, live, to take the measure of the challenge of maintaining order in increasingly tense demonstrations.

Since the beginning of the mobilizations against the pension reform, the defender of rights has received a total of 90 referrals, including 80 recorded in the last fortnight.

Deprivation of liberty in the traps, arrests followed by police custody, complaints from people claiming to be victims or witnesses of violence by the police... In Sainte-Soline, Claire Hédon took up the cases of the two demonstrators. wounded during the clashes of March 25 around the water retention basins of this rural commune of Deux-Sèvres.

“I am aware of the difficulties facing the police, sometimes at the risk of their lives”

, she declared on Franceinfo on Tuesday, before becoming more critical:

“We must use force when…

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