Edouard Philippe will travel to Évry on Tuesday morning to meet police officers who work in difficult neighborhoods, the day after the government’s announcements.
Prime Minister to meet with police present daily in neighborhoods
and will take stock of the prevention and strengthening of the link between the police and the population put in place by the departmental public security directorate
, said Matignon in a press release.
The head of government will then go to the premises of the Generation 2 association, for an exchange on civic engagement and to remind the government’s determination to fight all forms of racism or discrimination
.
End of the so-called strangulation method
The minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner advocated Monday at a press conference a zero tolerance
racism in the police, whose suspension will be systematically considered for each suspected suspicion
in the matter.
He also announced the abandonment of the controversial police arrest method of the taken by the neck, called strangulation
and a reform in-depth inspections of the Ministry of the Interior
.
These ads have left doubtful
police unions and in particular the prohibition of choke technique
.
Seized by Christophe Castaner, the Paris prosecutor’s office had opened an investigation on Friday on racist messages posted on Facebook and attributed to the police, in the midst of indignation linked to the death of George Floyd in the United States and of mobilization in France against police violence.
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