Bouches-du-Rhône: a municipal police officer suspended for rushing into high school students

The video is impressive. In the images, we see a municipal police car accelerating towards high school students demonstrating in front of a high school in Port-de-Bouc (Bouches-du-Rhône) as part of the mobilization underway for several days. The scene took place on October 2 and was broadcast in particular on social networks.

An open administrative investigation

As revealed by Marsactu, the PCF mayor of Port-de-Bouc, Laurent Belsola, decided to suspend “as a precautionary measure” the municipal police officer involved, “taking into account the presumption of serious misconduct”. In a press release sent to Le Figaro, the councilor also announced that he had “opened an administrative investigation before initiating disciplinary proceedings”. “This isolated act, foreign to the instructions given by his hierarchy, is firmly condemned by the municipality and particularly shocked the inhabitants of the municipality,” regrets Laurent Belsola.

Twenty-four investigations have been opened by the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), the “police of police”, for acts committed since the start of the high school movement, according to a count provided this Friday by the Ministry of the Interior.