The head of the national police asked for "explanations" and assured that the police intervened "in any point of the territory" after the dissemination of a note Friday, urging the Calvados police not to "intervene in high-density neighborhoods of population following Ramadan ” .
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"The director general of the national police (DGPN) was informed of the broadcast of a telex from the Calvados departmental public security directorate giving instructions restricting the conditions for intervention and patrol by the national police during the period Ramadan, " said the National Police in a message sent to AFP. “The national police intervene at any point in the territory to ensure the security of people and property whatever the circumstances. The DGPN asked that an explanatory report be sent to it this evening, ”the same source added.
According to the note sent by the chief of staff of the departmental public security directorate (DDSP) of Calvados to the department heads of the department, and of which AFP was aware, “there is no reason to 'intervene in neighborhoods with a high concentration of population following Ramadan, to raise a noise, to control a grouping of people gathered after sunset to eat ”. These restrictions do not concern "attacks on persons or serious damage to property", according to the head of the Calvados police. "The director asks all the staff of the DDSP to exercise discernment in this matter, in order to prevent a breach of the confinement rules from degenerating and causing a greater disturbance of urban violence" , it is added in the telex.
"This is an incomprehensible local initiative, on which the director general of the national police has requested a report," commented the entourage of Christophe Castaner. " The national instructions are clear and have been recalled several times in recent days both by the Minister of the Interior and by the Secretary of State: control by the police of good observance of confinement must be ensured everywhere and at all times throughout the territory, ” added the source. These departmental instructions contradict the assertions of the executive, which repeated that there were no instructions to lighten the containment controls whatever the neighborhoods. “There have never been any instructions to lighten controls on any territory of the Republic, including in the districts. (...) We intervene in all the territories ” , had thus affirmed the secretary of State for the Interior Laurent Nuñez Friday morning on Europe 1.