“Get convicted or get killed?
“: more than a thousand police demonstrated Monday in France at the call of several unions to protest against the indictment for “intentional homicide” of their colleague who killed two men who would have forced a check last week on the Pont-Neuf in Paris, on the evening of the second round of the presidential election.
In Paris, several hundred officials gathered in Place Saint-Michel, very close to the old courthouse and the Pont-Neuf, where the police officer opened fire.
"Self-defense for our colleague", could be read on signs, with the photo of a body in a morgue or that of a coffin covered with a blue white red flag.
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About fifteen counter-demonstrators tried to disrupt this rally.
Among them, activists from the collective “Urgence notre police assassinate”, committed against police violence.
“Today, it is not acceptable for the police to come and demonstrate”, denounced Samia El Khalfaoui, aunt of Souheil El Khalfaoui, a 19-year-old young man shot dead by the police in August 2021 during a traffic check in Marseille. .
“How many deaths will it take for France to wake up?
For the denial of police violence to stop?
So that the blackmail that the unions carry out with the politicians is recognized?
“, was indignant this activist.