The secretary general of the minority union Vigi, Alexandre Langlois, was dismissed from the police for having criticized the former Director General of the National Police and the former Minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner, in a letter consulted on Tuesday March 16 by AFP.
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In this letter dated March 12 and revealed by
Le Parisien
, the Director General of the National Police (DGPN), Frédéric Veaux, motivates this revocation by the publication of a text by Alexandre Langlois dated January 8, 2020 targeting his predecessor, Eric Morvan.
Entitled "
we had asked for his resignation, but the DGPN chose to escape
" and published in particular on Twitter and Facebook, it is illustrated with a montage of Mr. Morvan, in uniform.
Which is accompanied by a comic bubble making the then DGPN say: "
After 110 police suicides since I took office, fraud in pro elections, the repression of freedom of association, the falsification of the figures of the delinquency, I leave exhausted in early retirement, three years in advance.
"The text also criticizes Mr."
Castaner, more specialist in the evenings at the Noto than in the National Police
", in reference to a Parisian nightclub where the former Minister of the Interior was filmed in March 2019.
It is unheard of in France that a police unionist is dismissed
In the letter of dismissal, the DGPN considers that "
the peacekeeper Alexandre Langlois has seriously failed in the statutory and ethical obligations imposed on police officers, including when they speak within the framework of a mandate. union
”.
It is "
unprecedented in France that a police unionist be dismissed
" reacted to AFP Alexandre Langlois, for whom "
very clearly the freedom of union expression is under attack
".
Mr. Langlois indicated his intention to challenge this "
disproportionate
"
sanction before the administrative court
.
The union official, who was the subject of an administrative investigation and went to a disciplinary council for these facts, believes that the decision to dismiss him was taken by the Minister of the Interior Gerald "
Darmanin alone
".
Contacted by AFP, the Ministry of the Interior and the General Directorate of the National Police did not wish to react.