"We're waiting for the minister to land." Literally. Such was the atmosphere among the hierarchs of the big house this Thursday, before the evening start of the meeting with the police unions, all invited to find a way out of the crisis in which the institution is plunged since the incarceration of a police officer of the BAC of Marseille, accused, with three of his colleagues, of illegitimate violence during the riots of late June, early July.
Gérald Darmanin is also, let us not forget, Minister of Overseas, after the expansion of his ministerial perimeter a few months ago. He was therefore, at the height of the police slingshot, on a government trip to Oceania, with the head of state, gnawing on his brake, far from his bases.
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The spectacle on the return is striking: hundreds of police officers, mainly in the South, have gone on sick leave, while the right to strike is prohibited in the police. Others, even in the holy of holies...
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