BRAV-M police officers in “TPMP”? Investigation opened by the prefect of police, the justice seized

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In “TPMP” on C8, four people, their faces hooded, presented themselves as members of the BRAV-M, which the Paris police headquarters doubt.

TELEVISION – “ The first elements in our possession suggest that these people do not belong to the BRAV-M. “By a message posted on social networks, the Paris police headquarters has clearly undermined a sequence broadcast this Friday, March 31 in the issuance of Cyril Hanouna. To the point of announcing the opening of an internal investigation and referral to justice.

Do not touch My TV had chosen to give the floor to four members of the BRAV-M (Brigade for the repression of motorized violent action), at the heart of numerous debates on their methods of maintaining order during demonstrations against pension reform.

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But after the broadcast of the program on C8 on Friday evening, the Union of National Police Commissioners (SCPN) was the first to question the membership of these men in the unit in question, accusing TPMP of not to have ” carried out the necessary checks to avoid making these usurping puppets talk “.

In the process, the police headquarters announced the opening of several procedures. “The prefect of police opens an administrative investigation and seizes the prosecutor of the Republic of Paris. »

Accustomed to communicating on social networks, Cyril Hanouna, host and producer of the show, did not make the slightest comment on the men invited or on the methods of verification of his show.

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The four men had been introduced by the show’s star host as ” 4 police officers members of the BRAV-M and special units “. Hooded face, black hood on the head and modified voice, they said they wanted to express themselves to explain the true nature of their work, with a well-honed speech.

” We were really created to seek out the most radical and violent elements », Expresses one of them. All equipped with an orange armband marked ” police on the arm, the supposed BRAV-M policemen reject the idea that the police have become more and more violent, on the contrary “dthe clashes which have become more and more violent “.

They also explained that the people they had to deal with in protests were “black bloc determined to kill (them)”. THE “black bloc are the demonstrators’ worst enemies and we are the demonstrators’ best friends”explained one of the guests of the show.

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A televised passage which leaves questions above all after its broadcast, especially for spectators, many of whom have decided to alert Arcom (ex-CSA) on social networks. Contested in recent weeks, the BRAV-M and other police units are also the subject of at least 17 investigations for which the IGPN has been seized, in connection with the disputes against the pension reform text of the government.

A week before this visit to Cyril Hanouna, a damning recording for this mobile police unit had even been made public in the press. “These abuses are destructive for the national police institution” And “cast opprobrium on all the other services and police officers in the field who are exemplary”said Agnès Thibault-Lecuivre, director of the IGPN.

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