Policeman killed in Avignon: after the excitement, the anger of an entire institution

Emotion of course, especially anger.

The day after the murder of a police officer in Avignon (Vaucluse) during an anti-narcotics operation, the entire police institution is in mourning this Thursday, May 6, 2021. The second time in 15 days.

Already in Rambouillet, on April 23, an Islamist terrorist of Tunisian origin took the life of a 49-year-old police officer, within the police station itself.

"

After the horror, it is still the horror

", notes Michel Thooris, secretary general of France Police - Police officers in anger.

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The government has placed the fight against drug trafficking at the top of its priorities and that insecurity should be a major theme of the 2022 presidential campaign. “

Twenty or thirty years ago, when a police officer was shot at. 'was by a guy on the run, a gangster who already risked life imprisonment but today we shoot for no reason,

”laments Rocco Contento, spokesperson for the SGP Police union in Île-de-France.

For the trade unionist, with this new murder of a colleague a milestone has been crossed.

“

There is no precedent.

Today we attack a police officer more for what he does but for what he is,

”

he

explains.

a phenomenon of "extremely trivialization of anti-cop violence"

For him, this drama is not surprising.

“

We knew it was going to blow up,

” he continues.

And Michel Thooris to add:

“We must stop with tears, tribute ceremonies and candles.

Tears don't buy peace.

We are waiting for strong political action.

This is all there is to protect us ”.

For the Secretary General of France Police, it is urgent to establish a state of security emergency.

“

The police must be able to use their weapons, their survival is at stake.

Force must remain with the police,

”he emphasizes.

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An opinion widely shared by Rocco Contento.

“Every day, 85 police officers are assaulted.

The intimidation and threats keep increasing.

Mortar fire, throwing stones and molotov cocktails and now firearms ... And yet the agents, in most cases, do not dare to take out their weapons because they know they will be swallowed by the grinding machine. administrative.

And we come to cases like that of Avignon or that of Viry-Châtillon ”.

The trade unionist also denounces a phenomenon of

"extremely trivialization of anti-cop violence, unacceptable police bashing

".

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Linda Kebbab, national representative of the Unity SGP Police FO union, said she expected nothing more from the government and politicians in general. The day after the murder of Eric M., in Avignon, the trade unionist expressed her rage which would also be that of so many police officers.

“Yes, the anger gave way to real rage. A rage which continues to rise in the ranks, not only since yesterday, not only since Rambouillet but due to political cowardice on all sides and for too many years, ”she

underlines.

"Today we kill a policeman during a trivial operation because the life of a policeman is no longer worth anything, it is no longer worth anything!"

, insists Linda Kebbab.

“The police are on the verge of breaking down. We come to wonder if we should not simply give up everything, sit back and let insecurity take hold of the country, ”she

adds.

36-year-old father of two, Eric M. lost his life on Wednesday late afternoon after a drug dealer shot him twice in the abdomen and heart.

He could not be resuscitated by the SAMU and the firefighters, intervened on the spot.

A man suspected of having been present at the time of the facts was arrested on Thursday as part of the investigation.

The man was taken into custody at the Avignon police station.

But two men, the shooter and an accomplice, are still actively sought by investigators from the judicial police in charge of the investigation under the authority of the Avignon public prosecutor's office.

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