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Forum of retired police officers: "We are just saying that things are going badly", insist the signatories

2021-05-19T16:56:41.357Z


These retired members of the security forces, whose initiative was condemned by the director general of the national police, supported


"It is not a political act, but a cry of alarm from people who worked for decades in the police force and who are now citizens". The honorary divisional commissioner Claude Dupont justified, this Monday during a press conference at the end of the afternoon on the Old Port of Marseille, the call for "a national leap" that he launched to the president of the Republic, the government and parliamentarians with 92 other retired police officers last week. This appeal has since collected more than 42,000 signatures on the Internet, "many of which come from active police officers."

These former members of the police, "from the peacekeeper to the comptroller general", denounce in their text a "state authority battered by violent minorities", "a rejection of our republican values , of our customs and of our model of society in entire sections of our nation ”and“ a face-to-face meeting which nourishes communitarianism and threatens civil peace ”. They call on elected officials to "do everything possible to put an end to the extremely serious situation that France is going through in terms of security and public tranquility".

Published after the military columns in the weekly Valeurs Actuelles, this text was condemned by Frédéric Veaux, the director general of the National Police, who considers that the signatories "weaken the institution more than they strengthen it".

If the former boss of the North Marseille police station Claude Dupont was a candidate in the last municipal elections on the lists of RN Stéphane Ravier, the first signatories of the text, including many Marseillais or Varois, defend themselves from any political aim and ensure that they are "very vigilant ”on this point.

They admit that they were inspired by the military approach, "each describing its reality".

"The police can cope if we rearm them"

“We are all parents and grandparents, our children are often in the police force and for several years we have been afraid for them,” says Honorary Major Marie-Pierre Dion. “Violence is a social problem, we want our children to be spared. We are not a gathering of extremists, but police officers who want to defend the institution and their families. "

“It was the death of our colleague Eric Masson who succeeded the Rambouillet attack that prompted us to act. We demand a moral, legal and material rearmament of the police. We have no duty of reserve and we have achieved our goal, which was to alert elected officials and the population. We sounded the alarm bells for our colleagues who are still on duty, ”explains Claude Dupont. “Otherwise, the situation risks falling into chaos, with the beginnings of a civil war that does not speak its name. We do not want our active colleagues to be replaced by the army: the police can cope if we rearm them. "

“There is a lack of prison places and the will to punish offenders. There is no need to change the law to have proper penal responses. The dissuasive penalties exist but are not applied and on the other hand the procedure is more and more cumbersome. It has to be simpler and more pragmatic, ”continues the retired major Léon Beraudo. "We do not expect anything personally, we are just saying that things are going badly". These retired police officers now expect a lot from the national demonstration organized by the police unions this Wednesday in Paris.

Source: leparis

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