Magnanville: "Salvaing has always been correct with us" ... These former delinquents who pay tribute to the murdered police officers

There are unexpected, surprising tributes.

Five years after the attack against the police commander Jean-Baptiste Salvaing and his companion Jessica Schneider in Magnanville (Yvelines), on June 13, 2016, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin went this Monday morning to the Mureaux police station , where the policeman exercised, to salute the memory of the two victims.

But elsewhere, too, his memory has been praised.

The drama has left traces in particular in sensitive areas where this father worked for many years.

“After the attack, it happened to us, on several occasions, to receive a word of compassion from famous types, confides a police officer.

Delinquents who had been arrested many times who told us their disgust.

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Les Mureaux, Monday morning.

The Minister of the Interior laid a wreath of flowers at the Mureaux police station.

Mehdi Gherdane

Another remembers having crossed "faces known to our services" during the march in tribute to murdered officials or among the anonymous people who came to lay flowers at the foot of the Mantes-la-Jolie police station.

“His death really hurt my heart.

Salvaing has always been a decent person with us, loose an inhabitant of Val-Fourré who has had an eventful past.

He knew us at the time when we were doing the bazaar, he auditioned me several times.

When there were tensions with his colleagues in the field, he knew how to take me aside to calm me down and give advice.

However, between us and the police, it has never been easy.

I have had a lot of problems in my life with the police.

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"He was always straight and square"

Another insists on "Salvaing's respect" for all the people he has met in his career.

“He saw or familiarized himself but was always straight and square.

He was not there to give gifts but he was not there to humiliate or belittle us.

It is an important value for us. ”

A behavior that allowed him to be respected, even outside of his work.

Our first witness remembers having come across the policeman on his way home.

“We were smoking in his stairwell with some friends and we ran into him.

He came like a big guy from the neighborhood and kicked us out of the lobby.

He was a good person, ”laughs the young man.