The Minister of the Interior will not wait for the conclusions of the investigation.
This Thursday, visiting the Gare du Nord, in particular to decorate the officials who, on Monday, shot a man who threatened them with a knife, the Minister of the Interior announced on the sidelines that the policeman who had insulted a victim of sexual violence "will not be reinstated in the police".
“He has nothing to do in the police”.
The day before, Gérald Darmanin had already released some warning remarks: “This police officer has soiled all the women who lodge a complaint (…) He has soiled the uniform of his 250,000 other colleagues.
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An odious recording
The case, revealed by Mediapart, dates back to February 5.
The online media publishes an audio recording that comes from a woman's answering machine.
The victim lodged a complaint at the police station at 5-6, rue de la Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, behind boulevard Saint-Germain (Ve) for sexual assault.
In the recording in question, we hear the policeman insulting her: “She's really a whore.
» « Damn, she refuses the confrontation in addition, the whore.
As if by chance.
In fact, it was just to break his balls”, before concluding with a “Damn, big whore”.
On Tuesday, the prefect of police Didier Lallement announced that he had seized the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), the "carrot oxen", and requested the suspension of the offending official as a precaution.
This Thursday morning, Gérald Darmanin returned to the charge.
And wanting to confine the police to the black sheep section, the minister specified: “It is a minority of people in the police.
And it's like everywhere, among bakers, journalists!
“And to drive the point home:” This policeman will not be reinstated, independently of the investigation”.
The unions will defend the policeman
In the ranks of the police, the attitude of the minister makes people cringe.
Is Gérald Darmanin going too fast?
Does it go beyond the usual procedures?
“In this case, there is a political order, deciphers a policeman.
But it should take time, between the fault, the administrative investigation and the disciplinary council.
But the disciplinary councils are overwhelmed.
There are some every week.
Normally, given the calendar, this file should not pass before the presidential elections.
If he spends the next month in the disciplinary council, that means that there will have been a lot of pressure from the minister.
Yves Lefebvre, general secretary of the SGP police unit, whose union defends the offending official, said the same thing: “If there is a ministerial will, the file can end up at the top of the pile.
Gérald Darmanin is going too fast.
And this is not the first time.
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The trade unionist also points to "a political bath in this affair" and notes that "all the presidential candidates are rushing into the breach of the subject of sexual violence".
On the Minister's remarks this Thursday morning "not to reinstate the police officer independently of the investigation", the trade unionist sees there "an angry response" and also recalls that "the subject is looping in the media".
Finally, at Unit SGT Police, we remind that the offending official has the right to a defense, that “we will defend him” and warns: “If Gérald Darmanin dismissed the agent before the investigation, it would be an administrative fault.
Finally, the trade unionist also specifies that the police officer “recognizes his mistake.
He justifies her by saying that the complaint had been recorded incorrectly and that he was annoyed.
He apologizes.
He should never have said such things.
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