FIGAROVOX / MAINTENANCE – Sunday evening, three police officers from the Créteil anti-crime squad were targeted by fireworks mortars. For the policewoman, the lack of penal response to attacks against the police is a failure of government policy.
Linda Kebbab is the national delegate of the SGP Police-FO Unit. She published in 2020 at Éditions Stock Guardian of peace and revolt.
FIGAROVOX. – A police officer from an anti-crime squad was burned during the mortar attack on his patrol vehicle, in the Saint-Exupéry district, in Bonneuil-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne), late Sunday afternoon. Two other police officers present in the vehicle were injured. What does that inspire you?
Linda KEBBAB. – I am careful not to use the words that one usually uses as a representative of the police: anger, disgust, emotion… What happened on Sunday evening goes well beyond all that. It is a symptomatic event of what is happening in our country and of the visceral hatred that is spreading against our profession.
This assault took place while my colleagues were stepping in for an urban rodeo. The rodeo problem is dealt with through the lens of repression alone. However, it is a global policy which must make it possible to fight against this phenomenon: urbanization, establishment of means, prevention among young audiences via associations, implementation of motorcycle rodeos on secure tracks, then if not. is not enough, repression and implementation of effective justice.
Worse, we are now often questioned for these rodeos, but we are instructed not to chase them down the risk of an accident. And also to avoid putting police officers in danger. It is an admission of helplessness… We feel useless and ineffective.
The police were called in for urban rodeos on Sunday evening, they were expected by men with mortars in their hands. They have been ambushed.
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Should we reclassify these attacks on the police as assassination attempts?
The police were called in for urban rodeos on Sunday evening, they were expected by men with mortars in their hands. They have been ambushed.
Article 222-14-1 of the Criminal Code provides that “When committed in an organized gang or with ambush, violence committed with the use or threat of a weapon on an official of the national police, a soldier of the gendarmerie, a member of the staff of the prison administration or any other person holding public authority, or on a civil or military firefighter or an agent of a public passenger transport network operator in the exercise, during the exercise or because of its functions or its mission, are punished:
1 ° Thirty years of criminal imprisonment when they resulted in the death of the victim;
2 ° Twenty years of criminal imprisonment when they have resulted in mutilation or permanent disability;
3 ° Fifteen years of criminal imprisonment when they have resulted in total incapacity for work for more than eight days;
4 ° Ten years’ imprisonment and a fine of 150,000 euros when they have not resulted in total incapacity for work for more than eight days.
The same penalties are applicable in the event of violence committed under the same conditions against the spouse, an ascendant or a descendant in a direct line or any other person usually living in the home of a person mentioned in the first paragraph. , because of the functions performed by the latter. “
Are these penalties applied? No, because justice does not generally retain ambush, but only violence in meetings, which is an offense, not a crime. Why ? Because there is a saturation of tribunals and assize courts! There is therefore an almost automatic switch to correctional. The penal policy is insufficient and underfunded, it is a real admission of failure!
The Minister of the Interior has come, we thank him, but it is up to him to put in place a policy to put an end to it. We can no longer say that deliberately throwing a mortar into a car, in which the police are locked, is not criminal!
For a few years now, petty crime has set in, drug trafficking and now urban rodeos.
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The police were intervening for an urban rodeo, as you recalled. Are the collateral victims the residents?
I know Bonneuil-sur-Marne well, having worked there for more than seven years. The families have been settled for decades, the inhabitants know each other. Bonneuil-sur-Marne has 76.90% social housing, but despite the large complexes, a real village spirit exists.
This city does not have its own police station and depends on Créteil. Security issues are remote for the inhabitants. We organize patrols in the town, but there is no security service on site. However, for a few years now, a petty crime has set in, drug trafficking and now urban rodeos. Some complain of permanent discomfort, day and night, either residents cannot sleep, or they cannot take advantage of public space. In addition to living in a certain social and economic precariousness, residents have to endure these nuisances all year round … Sunday, I got the information very quickly and I was able to sound the alert, but in reality it all happens. the weeks.
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