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Protest for wages in October: Nuñez responds to unions

2022-11-04T13:24:49.339Z


The prefect of police of Paris Laurent Nuñez defended his troops implicated by the trade unions for having “targeted” their...


The prefect of police of Paris Laurent Nuñez defended his troops implicated by the trade unions for having "

targeted

" their order service during the demonstration of October 18 for wages, in a letter whose AFP has learned on Friday.

The Ile-de-France regional unions of the CGT, FO, FSU and Solidaires unions had asked for an "

investigation

", after their security service was "

targeted by police forces

", before the Ministry of Overseas.

They had denounced beatings "carried" by the police, "

including to the head

".

Seven members of the CGT had been injured.

At that time of the demonstration, a unit of police officers had been "

projected on my instruction to put an end to the ongoing damage to the windows

" of the ministry, writes the prefect Nuñez in his letter dated November 2.

An arrest for violence against a person holding public authority had taken place.

"

It cannot be excluded that on this occasion the unit was brought into contact with members of the union order service, in the momentum of the arrest of the individual

", continues the prefect. .

"

Which of course I deplore

," he adds, "

but is perfectly consistent with my instruction to prevent troublemakers from disrupting your motorcade

."

“A radical group dressed in black”

The prefect also returns to another incident: when "a

radical group dressed in black

" had committed damage to a BMW store.

The police had intervened to put an end to “

these abuses

”, while the trade union procession arrived at the level of the place of the facts, recalls the prefect.

At no time was the procession obviously targeted

,” he continues.

"

If incidents have taken place on this point, they are attributable to the urgency of the maneuver to avoid a total ransacking of the shop

," he adds.

Due to "

the infiltration of very violent groups

" in the processions in recent years, some "

peaceful demonstrators find themselves very involuntarily close to the abuses

", writes Mr. Nuñez, deploring this "

interweaving

" which "

makes more the work of law enforcement is difficult

".

Source: lefigaro

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