French President Emmanuel Macron has declined to condemn the country’s top police chiefs for appearing to suggest officers were above the law, seeking to stave off unrest among security forces wearied…

National police chief: “a police officer should not be in prison, even if he may have committed serious faults or errors in the course of his work.” Left-wing opposition blasted government for failing to rein in “a police hierarchy that places itself above the law”.

  • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Sounds like the kind of police force with the perfect conditions to be rife with criminality and corruption: those who put the esprit de corps ahead of Justice like this to protect a “few” bad apples with this kind of statements and demonstrations, are not going to be firm about the application of the law when it comes to the “making of a little money on the side” (such as with bribes), for their colleagues and quite possibly for themselves.