For several months, police work undergo heavy changes. increased threat of terrorism, radicalization detection, carrying of arms outside working hours, flexibility of self-defense, as many events that affect everyday already tormented by the additional understaffed and times. At a time when members look at a new text enhancing the security arsenal (see cons below) Libération has spent 24 hours in contact with the police Charleville-Mezieres (Ardennes) who, since the killing Charlie Hebdo, live their missions with “tenfold severity.”
10 hours
Just enter the lobby to find out that this is a model police station. On the wall, a small plaque indicates that the Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, was present at the inauguration in early 2014. The premises, in fact, are spacious and clean, a privilege that all French police, including Ile not benefit not. Upstairs, Commissioner Eric Krust, dynamic quarantine, received warmly. Former military, he led 207 staff, of whom 150 are affected in Charleville-Mezieres, the other 57 in Sedan.
In January 2015, his teams have been in the forefront in the hunt for Kouachi brothers. Amazement now lined with a nagging concern. From 20 am on Wednesday, 7 or the night of the killing of Charlie Hebdo, investigators are moving towards the sensitive area of the Round Couture which is native Izzana Hamyd’s wife Sharif Kouachi. But that night, it was his younger brother Mourad, 19, enrolled in high school Monge, the police suspect of involvement in the deadly commando. Just three hours later, the elite units IFNU Lille and Strasbourg BIS tumble any vibure. Until relatively calm, Charleville, only 50 000 inhabitants, between walk-in the reality of terrorism. In the end, Mourad Hamyd be exonerated. But the episode, according to Eric Krust, “shows that all the police of France may, at a time when another, find themselves intervention to prevent a terrorist act” . For fourteen months, he found his police “less light and much more concentrated,” even if they are essentially facing a street crime, where in 49% of cases, minors are put in cause.
12 hours
on one office to another, there is a small staircase. On the ground floor is the commander Thro Benedict, head of the territorial branch of the intelligence (RT). On the secret ordinary, the service opens this time her door. In all, ten officials including two policemen installed in Revin, near the Belgian border, is composed. Obviously, the concern of the moment concerns the radicalization: the two policemen and two police officers, care for them full-time. Human source management, monitoring, shadowing, administrative tapping, RT goes into overdrive. And now uses all the toys legalized after the vote of the “intelligence law”, including locator beacons. In a year, “40 credible targets” in addition to those already identified, were reported to him via the prefecture monitoring unit or toll managed by the Coordination Unit for the fight terrorism (UCLAT). Among the priority targets, treated more longstanding, figure near Fabien Clain, veteran French jihad near the clan Merah party and Syria. Until recently, an episode has proven particularly Benedict Thro: “One of our targets, yet little considered radical, was arrested at Paris as she was about to join the combat zones.” the warning toll has run a certain thrill in the team. “Sometimes the signal is so weak that it is almost imperceptible. We feel that we have no right to be wrong, that the route change quickly, is concerned Benedict Thro. Currently, a large activity of girls recruitment networks is observed. “
15 hours
Major Reynald Tilmont and sergeant Eric Vesoli embark on “working brigade.” in the early afternoon, a hot shot at the Round-Couture has led to four arrests for scooter theft. For them, 95% of the work concerns road offenses of common crime (outrages, snatching, burglary …) and alcohol. The Ardennes are ravaged by deindustrialization, with very high unemployment rate – almost 40% in some cities of the Meuse valley. On the radio, the “control station” guide the car through the streets of the city famous for its puppet festival: the lips blue from the cold, the victim was spotted by a neighbor. In his door, a bottle of Porto, empty. The woman confesses “trouble with her boyfriend, who fucking outside.” “We are fully in an emergency police mission,” says Eric, a police officer since 1996. The plight of the population is such that staff are overwhelmed. With the state of emergency, the Commissioner required 100% time presence between 13 November and 10 December. “We’re exhausted, Reynald Tilmont murmur. But solidarity is there. If something were to happen, it will be ready. “
21 hours
After drafting a final report for default insurance, the day of Eric Vesoli ends. But it will be back as soon 5am the police to take his morning post. Before leaving, he enters the local depot of weapons (LDA). It is here, in a personalized and automated record, that each police officer filed his service weapon. Under the state of emergency, an order of the interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, yet allows them to keep their gun outside service hours. The idea is to stop a terrorist attack if, by chance, a police officer close to the action. For this, applicants must write a reasoned report to the commissioner, who accepts or not, after evaluation. At Charleville, only 15 police officers have applied, or barely 10% of the workforce. “The chance to come face to a terrorist here is lower than in Paris or Lyon, said Eric Krust. Those that do will simply feel safer. “ More than concerns related to the theft of the weapon or burrs, is the assumption of suicides alert Eric Krust. In 2015, 45 police officers have ended their days, sometimes with their service weapons. “The LDA is a valuable equipment, but it does not replace a mutual care, he warned. Before, colleagues remettaient their arms every night for the post of leader who could see if one of them was not going well. “
23 hours
At this hour, it is the Anti-Crime Brigade (BAC) that travels Charleville. Set in an unmarked car, plainclothes police are there to hunt “flag”. Soon they will receive new submachine guns 5.56 mm and will be sent first to a terrorist attack . The relaxation of rules of self-defense under Article 19 of the law under discussion in the National Assembly, does not blink Gerald, the imposing taulier BAC: “For me, it not much will change. We train a lot in the shooting, whether to shoot someone to save the innocent, we will. “ However, he acknowledged that shoot a suspect ” is a serious decision that requires a precise level of information and fast from the hierarchy. “ that night, he did nothing significant happening, except a solitary retiree and tipsy throwing furniture and clothes from the window 5 th floor. Once again, most of the interventions is to manage intra-family fights on alcohol base. Gerald, lover of Russian literature, describes still a climate of permanent excitement: “We are on the alert. Terrorism is something evanescent, present everywhere and nowhere. “ The proximity to the Belgian border generates many trafficking, weapons and drugs. It is also not far away that has been seen for the last time one of the fugitives of the attacks of 13 November, Salah Abdeslam.
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