BRAV TPMP. People claiming to be Brav-M police officers testified in TPMP last Friday. But the police headquarters has serious doubts. Laurent Nunez, the prefect of police, must go to Cyril Hanouna’s show this Monday, April 3, 2023.
Laurent Nunez, prefect of police and former secretary of state, should go to Cyril Hanouna. This Monday April 3, 2023, the host could have a distinguished guest on his TPMP show, three days after a controversial sequence. The arrival of the security boss in Paris should make it possible to clarify what happened on Friday March 31 on the set of the talk show followed by nearly 1.8 million people and devoted to Brav- Mr. “I have to reconnect with Gérald Darmanin and under his authority to find out whether or not we will confirm our participation. Investigations are underway so we must be careful not to pollute the investigations by participating in this program”, declared Laurent Nunez on BFM TV this Monday.
Four hooded men, with hoods, sweatshirts or down jackets, around the set of a program with a large audience, who, microphone in hand, presenting themselves as police officers from Brav-M: it is the rather surreal scene which takes place is produced during the TPMP program, broadcast on C8, Friday, March 31. In the midst of a social crisis with almost weekly demonstrations, and while police violence on the part of this police unit is denounced, Cyril Hanouna questioned these individuals on the management of maintaining order. “4 police members of the Brav-M and special units come out of the silence” boasts the channel in a banner displayed on the screen. But on the air, precision is made by one of the participants: “there are among us members of the Brav-M and members of the specialized units who intervene in the maintenance of order. We did that all our career for 15 years.”
“Not all of them were part of the Brav-M”
During their speeches, the voice is modified to ensure total anonymity. If protecting the identity of law enforcement does not seem absurd, the question of their legitimacy arises. In the wake of the show, the police headquarters seized on the subject and denounced a blow of bluff. “The first elements in our possession suggest that these people do not belong to the Brav-M” explains the body, announcing the opening of an administrative investigation and the seizure of the public prosecutor of Paris.
Faced with the quickly aroused controversy, C8 tried to make amends by indicating that it was “four police officers”, including “one who was dismissed in December. It was specified on the air that not all of them were not part of the Brav-M.” The headband was less careful. A man quickly indicated that he was one of the police officers interviewed: it was Cédric Vladimir, a former police officer with the Seine-Saint-Denis Security and Intervention Company (CSI). Confirming not to be from the Brav-M, he said he spoke to “carry the word of many members of the Brav-M who asked me to do so, and did me the honor of going speak their truth.”
The prefect of police, Laurent Nunez, added on Sunday April 2 that “the vast majority” did not belong to the Brav-M. “We still have some doubts,” he nuanced, indicating that no communication authorization had been granted. “Go like that to communicate and be the spokespersons of the Brav-M in a hooded way […] It’s not a terrible picture. It damages the image of the unit in question that we defend and which does a remarkable job and which did not need that.