. Members of the “Great Muette” break the silence without raising his voice. Composed of military exercise, the first professional association of gendarmes, “GendXXI”, officially launched in France, after the decision of the European Court opening the military the opportunity to organize.
The Articles “first professional association” defense gendarmes were filed Friday in the prefecture, according to Lt. Col. Jean-Hugues gendarmerie Matelly.
On the same subject
In his statutes, “GendXXI” forbids any call to demonstrate and to strike, criticizing the political and military decisions in the commitment of troops, but does not rule out such criticism of the government budget, if the estimated negative, and “questioning” the resources committed.
A formal ethics policy
The board “includes both mobile gendarmes departmental gendarmes (…) Republican Guards and special constables, “said the ranking. As announced, it has also adopted a “Code of Ethics”. The creation of this association is based on two judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) of 2 October against France because of the ban on French military to organize.
Jean-Hugues Matelly, 49, was stricken frames of the gendarmerie in 2010 and returned the following year by court. He was accused of speaking out in the media late 2008 as a researcher of the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and criticizing the Police reconciliation / gendarmerie in the Ministry of Interior, effective since 2009 .
The police will be expressed in the media
The military gendarmerie do not have the right to organize unlike police officers, civilian . At the cutting edge on the right of expression in the gendarmerie, Matelly lieutenant colonel is the origin of one of the appeal to the ECHR.
Under pressure from the ruling of the European Court , President François Hollande announced December 19, 2014 the development of a French bill granting the military the right to professional association, excluding, in unison with his Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, however “all trade union rights.”
Jean-Hugues Matelly has always stood to want to create a union on a par with what exists in the police where the unions are powerful and widely expressed in the media. Members of “GendXXI” are however entitled to respond, for example, to the demands of the media under the statutes of the association, according to its managers, which is also a first for the police.
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