A police captain, suspended for suspicion of radicalization just after the killing of the police headquarters in October 2019, lodged a complaint Thursday, October 21, in particular for "
discrimination
", AFP learned from his lawyer.
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The complaint against X, announced by France Inter and consulted by AFP, was filed with the Paris prosecutor's office for “
slanderous denunciation, discrimination on the grounds of belonging to a specific religion, moral harassment and complicity
”.
Police officer Hervé C., 41 years old and converted to Islam, was working on the Automated National Judicial File of Perpetrators of Terrorist Offenses (FIJAIT) at the Paris judicial police when he was reported as potentially radicalized on 6 and 7 October 2019.
Suspended then transferred as head of the tax fraud and VAT group
A few days earlier, Mickaël Harpon, a computer scientist in the intelligence department of the police headquarters, had killed four of his colleagues with a knife before being shot.
According to an internal report, the assailant, a convert for ten years, had justified the Charlie Hebdo attack in 2015 with a colleague.
Colleagues had detected signs of radicalization, without notifying the hierarchy.
According to the complaint, Captain Hervé C. was suspended by the Ministry of the Interior on October 28, 2019, then reinstated on February 28, 2020 and transferred as head of the tax fraud and VAT group.
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In a report of June 8, 2020 and cited in the complaint, the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) concluded that “
the feelings and concerns
” of his colleagues were not based on “
factual and concrete elements regarding a possible radicalization of this agent
”. The policeman "
seems to have perfectly integrated the duty of neutrality and the principle of secularism
", according to the IGPN.
But in a brief sent in June 2021 to the administrative tribunal, which must rule on the reinstatement of the captain at the FIJAIT, the Ministry of the Interior refers to "
a radical religious practice, incompatible with the life of the unit and even beyond. with the requirements of secularism of its republican and public service missions
”.
Citing "
prayers in the service
" and "
unequivocal words translating a radical vision of Islam
", the representative of the ministry warns on "
a more flexible attitude apparently likely to let think that (the captain) would try to conceal his religious convictions
”.
After the attack at the prefecture, "
several dozen reports of agents likely to show signs of radicalization were analyzed
" by the departmental assessment group, a police source told AFP.
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"
Not all were radicalized and this device made it possible to raise doubts about certain individual situations
," she added.
"
The objective was to detect possible weak signals and to avoid a new act of
doing."
