Police union Synergie-Officers accused of racism after provocative tweet

While the whole world is demonstrating this weekend against police violence, the Synergie-Officiers union is not afraid to be against the tide. To denounce "the business of pseudonyms #ViolencesPolicieres", the police officers union tweeted very late this Friday evening a message which was controversial this Saturday and led to the appearance of a hashtag "#SynergieRaciste" causing over 4,000 tweets.

The union has in fact chosen to post on the social network Twitter, a photo of the leader of Aqmi (Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) announced dead, accompanying it with this message: “Day of mourning for many participants of the demonstration November 10, 2019 (2 steps from Charlie Hebdo) partly recycled in the business of #ViolencesPolicieres nicknames and who practice uninhibited #racism when it comes to #policiers ”.

Day of mourning for many of the participants of the demonstration of November 10, 2019 (2 steps from Charlie Hebdo) partly recycled in the business of the #ViolencesPolicieres nicknames and who practice uninhibited #racism when it comes to #policiers. https://t.co/6fcm5kyBUK

This openly provocative post refers to the demonstration against Islamophobia which gathered more than 13,000 people in Paris last year. The demonstration, at the call of several personalities and organizations, like the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA), had been controversial because of the presence of certain signatories of the call like the Collective against Islamophobia (CCIF) accused of links with the Muslim Brotherhood.

"An environment where the ideology of the far right dominates and where racism is justified by its amalgams"

Many internet users rebelled at this parallel with the death of the leader of Aqmi. “The Synergie union alone demonstrates what the police are: an environment where the ideology of the far right dominates and where racism is justified by its amalgams. And the republican state, passive, of its compromises with this police force which protects it, is silent, ”declares this surfer.

The Synergie union alone demonstrates what the police are:
an environment where the ideology of the far right dominates and where racism is justified by its amalgams.

And the republican state, passive, of its compromises with this police force which protects it, is silent. #SynergieRaciste pic.twitter.com/Sx9SQ2lN96

How do you want to stop generalizing with this kind of behavior? I would like it to be said that the profession is soiled by a minority but which sanctions all abuses? IGPN? mdr #SynergieRaciste #JeSoutiensLaPolice pic.twitter.com/rB4k8sewzW

It is beautiful to agree with your detractors! It is lamentable to draw this kind of parallel. #SynergieRaciste https://t.co/9L9Kyg6uti

At a time when several demonstrations against police violence are taking place in France, including Paris and Lille, the secretary general of Synergie Officers, Patrice Ribeiro, contacted by Le Parisien, completely assumes these remarks. "What we wanted to say is that the people who have taken over the" police violence "file are the same people who have questionable comments on terrorism. Many are recycled, they are not Republicans, they demonstrated with extremists. People more than ambiguous. For some sulfurous because of their ties to radical Islam, “said the union representative. Synergie Officers-Alliance, came in second position in the last professional elections in the services of the Ministry of the Interior in 2018.

"It is far from being a spontaneous and innocent movement"

“We have no moral lessons to receive from these people. This movement is instrumentalized by intersections that seek agitation at all costs. The Traoré family is taken in hand by people who are activists. It's still the same nebula. People who never condemned the attacks. It is far from being a spontaneous and innocent movement, "added the leader, indicating that he did not mind that his organization was described as" racist ".

“We have no complacency with racism. We sit on the disciplinary councils and vote the sentences. This tweet clearly targets those who have recognized themselves, "" we have taken positions that put the church in the middle of the village. We can stick hashtags, let it flow, it's the little world of Twitter "concluded in the same ironic tone Patrice Ribeiro.

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This controversy comes as the Paris prosecution, seized by the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner, opened Friday an investigation into racist messages published on Facebook and attributed to the police. Contacted the Ministry of the Interior had not reacted at the time of writing these lines.