"
Couldn't we experiment with stopping the identity check?"
asked the defender of rights, Claire Hédon, Friday February 12 on
France Info
.
"
In some neighborhoods, for some young people, it becomes unbearable,
" she added.
Believing that
"in 95% of cases identity checks do nothing"
, Claire Hédon expressed her wish to create
"areas without identity checks"
.
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This proposal makes the police unions jump.
"
The next time the police cross a gang on their way on an armed punitive expedition, will they look away?"
The defender of rights is definitely above ground and lives in a parallel world of sores,
”the Synergie-Officiers union tweeted on Friday evening.
“
Areas where we could even more rob, deal and terrorize the inhabitants.
The caïdat replacing the Law of the Republic and the scum in freewheeling
", added the union this Saturday in another tweet.
“
Identity checks make it possible to find any wanted persons.
It is the only base we have for carrying out palpations,
”explains
Patrice Ribeiro, secretary general of Synergie-Officiers
, to
Figaro
.
"Fan zones for offenders"
The union of national police commissioners (SCPN) joked about the creation of "
fan zones for delinquents
", which must be "
marked out so that honest citizens do not enter
".
“
There cannot be areas of law and areas of lawlessness in France.
To be equal before the law, the law must be the same everywhere.
It is not conceivable that in some places there could be identity checks and in other places not.
This proposal is totally fanciful
”, explains to
Figaro
David Le Bars, secretary general of the SCPN.
This initiative gives a blank check to delinquency and criminality.
Linda Kebbab, national delegate SGP-FO Unit
“
The problem with our neighborhoods is not the police.
Do not facilitate the work of delinquents by creating lawless areas
, ”replied Alliance, one of the main unions among peacekeepers, in a leaflet distributed this Saturday.
Alliance union responded to proposal from Alliance union rights activist Tract
For Linda Kebbab, national representative of the Unity SGP Police FO union, this proposal responds to requests from associations and is completely disconnected from the field.
“
Individuals will be able to commit offenses and crimes without the police being able to speak to them.
This initiative gives a blank check to delinquency and criminality.
This will put the victims in these areas in difficulty
, ”
Linda Kebbab
explains to
Figaro
.
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“
The defender of rights supposes that it is the action of the police which is responsible for delinquency in certain districts.
There will be no decrease in delinquency but simply a decrease in arrests,
”laments the unionist.
According to her, the police "
are still paying for the words of the President of the Republic on facial checks
."
As a reminder, at the beginning of December, during an interview with the online media Brut, Emmanuel Macron mentioned the existence of facial checks and announced a national platform for reporting discrimination, inaugurated on Friday by Élisabeth Moreno, Minister Delegate in charge of Equality, with the Defender of Rights.
In the process, in protest, police unions called for the end of identity checks.
In January 2017, a report by the Defender of Rights estimated that a "
young man perceived as black or Arab (...) has a 20 times higher probability
" of being controlled than the rest of the population as a whole.
