A few hundred police officers in Paris, in front of the City Hall, express their anger over the lack of information regarding personnel management this summer for the Paris 2024 Games.
“We have had seven years to prepare them, we are six months away from the Olympics, and today our colleagues do not even know where they will be,” explains Fabien Vanhermelryck, Secretary General of the Alliance Police nationale union.
Throughout France, “300 police stations are blocked” this Thursday, and only emergencies are provided, according to Sylvain André, member of Alliance in Strasbourg.
At Paris Charles-de-Gaulle airport, police officers carried out a work-to-rule strike at the start of the day, causing an additional hour of waiting for passengers, according to an airport source.
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In Bordeaux, around ten representatives of Alliance Police nationale met at Saint-Jean station to distribute a leaflet proclaiming “Delinquency will not take a vacation!”
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Christophe Gras, regional secretary of the union, says he expects “12 hours of shifts, for five days of work and one day of rest” during the Olympics.
He hopes for “an exceptional bonus for an exceptional event”.
He adds that the South-West is a festive region and deplores that there will be “no CRS at the various festivals in Bayonne, Dax (…) nor around the beaches”.
Their demands cover three aspects: they demand guarantees on summer leave rights, bonuses for all agents up to 2,000 euros and social support, in particular on the issue of childcare, for example by financing universal employment-service vouchers.
“There is also everything relating to catering, the working regime, hourly cycles, overtime… We still don’t know how it will happen,” warns Éric Henry.