A magistrate at the head of the font of fonts”. Agnès Thibault-Lecuivre must be appointed director of the IGPN, the General Inspectorate of the National Police, by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin in the Council of Ministers this Wednesday, July 20. A first for an institution that has always been run by police officers.
It’s a small revolution that makes the most marked police unions cringe on the side of the police unions on the right, such as Alliance, where we are used to saying that ” the problem of the police is justice “.
For the first time, a personality from the judiciary, Agnès Thibault-Lecuivre, will lead ” font font “, traditionally managed by commissioners, according to information from the Parisian confirmed by AFP.
Gérald Darmanin is preparing to appoint the magistrate Agnès Thibault-Lecuivre at the head of the IGPN, “the police of the police”
This is the first time that a personality from the judiciary will lead the IGPNhttps://t.co/OwqmCNxx0t
– The Parisian (@le_Parisian) July 19, 2022
This appointment comes as the institution is regularly under fire from critics, accused in particular of lacking independence in cases of police violence.
The idea of appointing an independent personality had also emerged from Beauvau security at the end of 2020, after the Zecler affair, this music producer beaten during his arrest in Paris.
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A mostly symbolic appointment
But despite this appointment, the independence of the IGPN has its limits: it remains attached to the General Directorate of the National Police, and therefore to the Ministry of the Interior. This same ministry where Agnès Thibault-Lecuivre has just spent two years as legal adviser, then deputy director of cabinet of Gérald Darmanin.
At 41, the one who was responsible for the communication of the former Paris prosecutor, François Molins, during the attacks of 2015, has the reputation of being a magistrate of consensus and not at all “anti-cop”.
His appointment is rather ” symbolic “, Judge David Le Bars, of the Union of Police Commissioners.
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