The dissolution of the BRAV-M is “not on the agenda”, according to Laurent Nuñez

Paris' police prefect Laurent Nunez arrives to attend a ceremony of addressing New Year wishes to French Gendarmerie at the Hotel des Invalides in Paris, on January 16, 2023. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP) — LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP Paris’ police prefect Laurent Nunez arrives to attend a ceremony of addressing New Year wishes to French Gendarmerie at the Hotel des Invalides in Paris, on January 16, 2023. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP)

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The prefect of police of Paris, Laurent Nunez, here at the hotel des Invalides in Paris, January 16, 2023.

POLICE – Inflexible. The prefect of police Laurent Nuñez indicated this Saturday, March 25 that the dismantling of the BRAV-M, a unit recently implicated in several cases of police violence in the context of demonstrations against the pension reform, is not “obviously not on the agenda”.

“The behavior of a few individuals should not cast opprobrium on an entire unit which, in recent years, and particularly at this time, has proven its usefulness”said the prefect on franceinfo.

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The BRAV-M are police units circulating on motorcycles to ensure the maintenance of order during demonstrations in Paris, being more mobile than the CRS companies or the mobile gendarmes. Their mission is to contact the thugs to stop the damage and challenge them.

They are nevertheless decried for their methods of muscular intervention and are under several legal investigations for violence against demonstrators.

A compromising audio recording

Friday evening, the prefect of police announced that he had seized the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) after the broadcast of an audio recording, obtained by The world And Loopsiderin which we hear police officers, presented as members of BRAV-M, making insulting and humiliating remarks towards seven young demonstrators whom they had just arrested.

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In a 20-minute audio recording that Loopsider obtained, several Brav-… https://t.co/IfhgIBJhAO
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Two judicial investigations were opened this week and entrusted to the IGPN following two complaints against BRAV-M police officers.

The first was filed by a woman who was beaten with a truncheon on Monday evening by a helmeted police officer, when she seemed motionless, stuck against a wall with other people in the Châtelet district, according to a video posted on social media.

The second concerns the punch struck by a police officer in the face of a demonstrator the same evening, captured by a video widely relayed on the internet.

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Several deputies from France Insoumise called this week for the dissolution of the BRAV-M.

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