Overview

• The Paris police prefecture launched a gross-misconduct dismissal process, suspended the apprentice, revoked his access and reported the case to prosecutors under Article 40 of the criminal procedure code.
• The individual, identified as Marc T., is a public administration master’s student at Nanterre who was first hired in 2024 in the prefecture’s finance directorate and had his contract renewed in early September 2025.
• Past posts resurfaced by users on X included explicit antisemitic remarks, hostile comments about France described as a "pays détestable," calls to boycott France over the Sahel and racist statements targeting white people, after which he deactivated his accounts.
• Some reports said he prepared situational notes and talking points for Police Prefect Laurent Nuñez, but the prefecture says his tasks were limited to budget projects and administrative notes.
• The recruitment has renewed scrutiny of safeguards for sensitive roles, with officials noting no legal basis for apprentice vetting and commentators recalling the 2019 attack by prefecture employee Mickaël Harpon.