Forty police officers gathered Thursday evening in Tours to protest against a court decision and a hundred in Bordeaux to express their "
fed up
" following the words of Emmanuel Macron.
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In Tours, officials demonstrated at 9:30 p.m. in front of the courthouse after the conviction earlier of the week of one of their colleague to six months suspended prison sentence and ban on practice for eighteen months for slapping a man during of an intervention.
At the bar, the police officer said he had carried out a resuscitation gesture, "
facial stimulation to revive the individual
".
“
The decision that was made by the court is unfair and disproportionate.
Today, his work colleagues come to materialize their anger,
”said an AFP correspondent David Debono, of the SGP Police FO unit union.
An officer in uniform was shackled in front of the courthouse.
"
A slap = 6 months of reprieve
" or "
100% guilty
», We could read on the signs.
In Bordeaux, nearly a hundred police officers arrived in a convoy of trucks and screaming siren cars gathered Thursday evening in the light of the flashing lights on the square of the town hall, where they sang a Marseillaise, shortly after 9:30 p.m. at the time of the junction of the day and night shifts.
Responding to the call of the Alliance police nationale union, these night police officers from the metropolis of Bordeaux and the neo-Aquitaine departments of Charente and Lot-et-Garonne intended to express their “
fed up
” after the “
allusions
”
unjustified by the Head of State aimed at discrediting the Republican Police guilty according to him of face checks and / or inappropriate violence
, ”according to the union.
A rally was also planned in the evening in Quimper.