Dunkirk: a disciplinary investigation opened into a police rodeo among high school students

Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez announced on Wednesday the opening of a disciplinary investigation after a police vehicle was filmed driving Monday in the middle of a gathering of high school students in Dunkirk (North), “shocking” images for the Human Rights League.

In videos widely distributed on social networks, we can see a 4x4 of the National Police carrying out maneuvers at high speed among several dozen young demonstrators, who are running away. The vehicle climbs onto a sidewalk, goes into reverse, then leaves, still quickly, taking a trash can along the way.

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According to an official from the Interdepartmental Directorate of the National Police (DIPN) of the North, the incident did not cause any injuries. But the way in which the vehicle was used “does not correspond to the employment doctrines (of force) and the directions given by the Ministry of the Interior, the prefect and the interdepartmental director” of the police (DIPN), added this police official.

“Extremely shocking”

“I saw these images, there is a disciplinary investigation which is underway, there is a call to order which has been made”, for his part declared Laurent Nuñez, questioned on Wednesday during a hearing before the Law Committee of the National Assembly. “The prefect took it up, (...) the DIPN issued calls for order and there is a disciplinary investigation, we will see what it is,” added the minister.