The prefect of police of Paris, Laurent Nuñez, should come Monday evening on the set of the program TPMP of Cyril Hanouna, after the participation Friday in this program of four people presented as members of the BRAV-M (policemen on motorcycles), said Sunday Gérald Darmanin.
As of Friday evening, Laurent Nuñez had announced the opening of an administrative investigation and the referral to justice, assuring that “the first elements in possession” of the police headquarters left “to think that these people do not belong to the BRAV-M”, the Motorized Violent Action Repression Brigade.
Guest of the “Grand Rendez-vous” Europe 1 / Cnews / Les Echos, the Minister of the Interior said he had “proposed” that Mr. Nuñez “could be a guest of Mr. Hanouna’s show on Monday”. “And I believe he will be there,” he added.
Laurent Nuñez later clarified on BFMTV that he had to “discuss it again with the minister”, in order “not to pollute the investigations by participating in the program”.
Friday evening, on the set of “Touche pas à mon poste”, three men and a woman, hooded, a black hood on their heads and their voices modified, an orange armband marked police on their arms, presented themselves for some as members of the BRAV-M.
However, according to concordant sources, none is a member of the BRAV-M. A man named Cédric, who presented himself as the spokesperson, was dismissed from the national police in December 2022, said Mr. Darmanin.
For Mr. Nuñez, this television sequence “harms the image of the unit in question”. “This is a very serious matter,” he said.
When a petition calling for the dissolution of this unit has collected nearly 250,000 signatures, the Minister of the Interior invited parliamentarians, “including those who insult them”, to come and see how the police work.
“We’re tired of pouring torrents of insults on the police and gendarmes!” Exclaimed Mr. Darmanin.
He proposed to LFI deputy Ugo Bernalicis to “spend a day” with BRAV or CRS police officers.
The LFI deputy had written on Twitter on Saturday, as an April Fool’s joke, that he would be “immersed” within the BRAV-M on April 6, the date of the next inter-union mobilization.
“Chiche!”, had immediately tweeted the police headquarters.
Sunday evening, Mr. Nuñez repeated that the BRAV-M was an “indispensable” unit in the maintenance of order. “She intervenes on the wild processions”, he explained in particular.
He judged that comparing them to the Voltigeurs, dissolved after their implicated in the death of Malik Oussekine in December 1986, was “a shortcut maintained” by certain detractors.
The Voltigeurs were a kind of “motorized cavalry, they used their weapons from their motorcycle”, while the BRAV-M “intervene by dismounting, and I challenge anyone to show me a crew that intervenes from their motorcycle” , continued the prefect.
Like Gérald Darmanin, Mr. Nuñez defended the method of maintaining order in France. He was annoyed that “the roles are reversed”. “The police are there to protect the demonstrations and put an end to the abuses”. They “provide a proportionate response to abuses”, he said, emphasizing “the extremely serious violence” of the thugs.
For him, those who use the terms “police violence” want to make it understood “on purpose” that they would be “systemic”. “There is violence from the police, but the vast majority are doing their job properly,” he continued.
Asked to comment on a scene from March 23 where we see a charge of police against demonstrators, the prefect of police explained that it was “an offensive leap” to “repel the black bloc”, which then “hide in the crowd”, and then “we withdraw”.
Referring to the action of the police, the prefect of police clarified: “We intervene when there are abuses and we withdraw”.
“We are in de-escalation all the time!”, He assured.
02/04/2023 20:35:44 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP