Overview

• On July 30, LFI deputy Gabrielle Cathala told RMC that pervasive racism in the police deters discrimination victims from filing complaints.
• On July 31, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau filed a defamation lawsuit on behalf of all French police officers against Cathala for her remarks.
• Horizons deputy Naïma Moutchou publicly rebuked Cathala’s comments as an insult to Val-d’Oise officers who serve under tension and threat.
• The Syndicat des cadres de la sécurité intérieure denounced her generalization and mocked her “expertise of haut niveau.”
• LFI militant Ilan Gabet defended the right to expose sociological truths about institutional racism and called the complaint “ridiculous.”