Le Figaro Bordeaux
The case could have remained a simple roadside alcohol check.
But it turned out differently.
At the end of January, while carrying out checks on the roads near Arcachon, the Gironde gendarmes stopped two cars following each other.
In one of the vehicles, the commander of the Arcachon police station and his wife.
In the other, his deputy and his wife.
Led by the women, the couples were returning from a private evening they had spent together.
The only problem was that one of them had driven
“slightly above”
the alcohol level authorized by law according to our sources.
While they wanted to issue a ticket, in accordance with the law, the Gironde gendarmes had to face a particularly virulent police officer.
Using his position and his name, negotiating the sanction by threatening and insulting the military, the deputy commander then outraged the internal security forces.
A violation of behavior filmed by the body-worn camera of the gendarmes on duty and condemned by the courts on March 13.
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Exemplarity
Judged by the council chamber of the Bordeaux court, number 2 of the Arcachon police station was sentenced to two months in prison for contempt of the gendarmes.
“Those who are supposed to enforce the law must also embody it
,” the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office firmly reminded.
Suspended from his duties until further notice, the officer is also the subject of disciplinary proceedings within the national police.
However, he obtained that this judicial conviction does not appear in his record number 2 that employers can request during recruitment.
His superior, number 1 at the Arcachon police station, was not investigated due to the lack of a serious criminal offence.
Also kept away from his post, this time due to sick leave, he is nevertheless the subject of an administrative investigation and risks withdrawal of his authorization as a judicial police officer, specifies the prosecution. from Bordeaux.