Didier Lallement, the Paris police prefect, in Paris, on March 18, 2020. – AFP
The prefect of Paris police Didier Lallement addressed this Tuesday his support to the police facing “accusations of violence and racism”. Rallies denouncing “the police violence »Are announced in an international context marked by
American riots. “I know the punishment that is yours in front of accusations of violence and racism, repeated endlessly by social networks and certain groups of activists,” Didier Lallement wrote in an email, according to information from
Mediapart confirmed by the police headquarters.
“For the French citizens that we are, an accusation is not enough to make a truth. The police in the Paris metropolitan area are neither violent nor racist: they act within the framework of the law for the freedom of all, “he wrote in this email to the 27,500 police officers in the metropolitan area. “I will not allow an institution whose role in great moments in the history of this country has been essential to soil. There is no race in the police, no more than racialized or racist oppressors. There are civil servants who are committed to freedom, equality and fraternity and that on a daily basis! “, He adds.
“Republican bulwark” against delinquency
“If some of us fail in the requirement of impartiality and excellence that is ours, they will be punished as they have been to date,” said Didier Lallement. “But I will not accept that some individual actions call into question the republican bulwark that we are against delinquency and those who dream of chaos and anarchy,” warns the police chief.
These statements come as it was held Sunday at Bondy (Seine-Saint-Denis) rally to demand “justice” for a 14-year-old boy seriously injured in the eye after a police arrest. In late May, the singer and actress
Camélia Jordana had sparked the controversy by declaring that “men and women who go to work every morning in the suburbs (…) are massacred for no other reason than their skin color”.
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