The controversial technique known as " strangulation ", the abandonment of which announced by Christophe Castaner aroused the anger of the police, "will continue to be implemented " until a new technique of arrest is defined, said the chief of the national police on Monday.
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" Pending the definition of a new framework and to the extent that the circumstances require it, the technique known as of the strangulation will continue to be implemented with measure and discernment and will be replaced progressively of the individual training provided (...) ”, wrote the director general of the national police (DGPN), in a memorandum consulted by AFP.
The head of the national police, Frédéric Veaux, specifies that a working group will be set up next Wednesday " to define a substitution technique ". He will give his conclusions " before September 1 ". Frédéric Veaux also recalls that " the 'rear grip' to immobilize the standing person or train him on the ground in order to handcuff him is always taught and applied ".
The announcement of the abandonment of the key of " strangulation " by Christophe Castaner, on June 8, had angered the police unions and officers on the ground. " The method of taking by the neck, called strangulation will be abandoned and will no longer be taught in police and gendarmerie schools. It was a method that involved dangers, "said Christophe Castaner at a press conference.