Following the revelations of "Marianne" about a CRS promoted to brigadier chief in June 2020 after being sanctioned in 2015 for wearing a Nazi coat of arms, the Minister of the Interior announced on Twitter that he was canceling his promotion this Thursday July 30.
A CRS was promoted on June 30, 2020 to brigadier-chief. His advancement surprised more than one, since he had in the past proudly displayed on his work helmet a coat of arms representing the 12e Panzer SS, a Nazi division that served during World War II. Brigadier G. had been sanctioned in 2015 by decision of the Ministry of the Interior. But that did not prevent him from seeing his name on the summer progress chart in an order signed by Frédéric Veaux, director general of the national police, " for the Minister of the Interior and by delegation”.
However, on July 29, following the publication of the article by Marianne, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin asked the director general of the national police to cancel this promotion. He announced it on Twitter on the 30th, retweeting Marianne's article: " No. In accordance with what I asked the director general of the national police, this agent will not be promoted. » The services of the Ministry of the Interior had refused to answer us for our first article, published on the morning of July 29, considering that the communication service of the police had already done so. However, we had expressly requested a reaction from the Ministry.
No. In accordance with what I asked the Director General of the National Police, this agent will not be promoted. https://t.co/ugwzZIEOUS
- Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) July 30, 2020
Gérald Darmanin's services finally explained to us on the evening of July 30 that the request for cancellation of the promotion had been made on July 29: “The 2020 promotion table for the 1922 police brigadiers at the rank of brigadier-chef had been signed by the DGPN, ratifying the proposal of the competent joint administrative commission. However, it had not been published in the official bulletin of the Ministry of the Interior, only on the intranet site of the resources and skills department of the national police. No advancement decree had been signed. In accordance with the instructions of the Minister of the Interior, this brigadier was removed from the promotion table before its official publication. » A rare decision.
The police communication department had justified the promotion of Brigadier G. as follows: “ He has been eligible for promotion since 2014. On February 6, 2020, the competent joint administrative committee proposed his promotion based on the rules applied to all civil servants, on the basis of the last three evaluations and success in professional examinations. » It did not therefore seem disqualifying then to the ministry as to the police to have worn a Nazi coat of arms and to have evolved in an atmosphere of sexism and racism in his unit for obtaining a promotion.
"And all those who are already promoted?"
This CRS was in 2012 one of the hierarchical superiors of Inès (the first name has been changed), police officer, Franco-Algerian: she was a peacekeeper and he was a brigadier in a company in Joigny (Yonne). Inès is one of the people who launched the alert on the admiration of its leader for the Nazi material, as well as on the sexist and racist remarks made in their unit and on its " shelving " by him and others. She was recognized as the victim of discriminatory and sexist remarks in her unit, in which Brigadier G. was one of her hierarchical superiors, by the Defender of Rights and the administrative court. Both the independent authority and the court castigated the Interior Ministry's inaction.
Faced with the decision to cancel the promotion of Brigadier G. that we taught her, Inès was first left speechless. Then she embraced: It is a communication element. From the beginning, everything was badly done with such a minimal sanction of 15 days of exclusion. There, they react hot to something inadmissible, they remove the promotion yes, and then? And all those who are already promoted without our knowing it? »
For its part, the CRS obtained neither compensation nor transfer near his home. Since sick leave after an injury in service in 2012, she has been on maternity and parental leave, feeling forced to do so since the only transfer offered was, she says, far too far from home. She specifies: “It is the tree that hides the forest, there is really a dysfunction in the national police. You have to wonder how did we get there, how is it that this gentleman was able to make a career in the police, with such ideas. He was able to put a Nazi insignia in plain sight on his helmet, a piece of equipment that we wear in intervention. It's symptomatic. What solutions can be found to prevent this from happening again? »
"I choke"
After the revelations of marianne, Street Press, Mediapart, Art Radio et Libération on racism and sexism in the police and reprisals against whistleblowers and whistleblowers, does the cancellation of such promotion by the Interior bode well for a more global reflection on the subject and search for solutions for the police? The Minister's services refer to the declarations of Gérald Darmanin during the National Assembly's law commission and to the Director General of the National Police.
In front of the deputies, the minister affirmed his wish that the excesses of the police be systematically sanctioned: "The government must sanction them, and if it does not do so, the press, the trade unions, the parliamentarians must remind the police hierarchy and the Ministry of the Interior what they must do, and that is quite legitimate.“But he also refused to endorse the expression “police violence”, using a repartee that could have been taken as a provocation: “When I hear about police violence, personally, I choke."
source: Marianne.net
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