Paris Police Move to Dismiss Officers for Alleged Extremism

The procedure for dismissing police officers has been initiated. Indeed, an agent of the intelligence directorate of the Paris Police Prefecture, during an attack that occurred on October 3, 2019, put an end to the lives of four of his colleagues.

The disciplinary procedure against him has been initiated by the Prime Minister’s services for the establishment of the joint body. And it is the Police Prefecture that will be the first to refer it to it.

A first file has already been transmitted to the joint commission, made up of civil servants and union leaders, and concerns an administrative agent, according to information from 20 Minutes. The Police Prefecture accuses the first civil servant of an extremist practice of the Muslim religion. Two other files are under investigation.

Since October 3, 2019, four agents of the Police Prefecture have been pinpointed and a provisional suspension has been pronounced for suspicions of extremism. In total, nine Parisian police officers have been disarmed since the attack by Michael Harpon. At the national level, 106 police officers have been sanctioned for extremism, Christophe Castaner said last Tuesday on BFMTV. "We are studying the file. This does not mean that they are extremists," the Interior Minister hinted.

It should be noted that in 2017, the LREM majority adopted a law aimed at transposing certain measures of the state of emergency into common law.