Overview
- Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez sent a letter-complaint to the Paris prosecutor after Pierre-Emmanuel Barré’s November 9 chronicle likened police and gendarmerie to Daesh.
- Barré’s segment on Radio Nova’s La Dernière accused members of the forces of rapes, mutilations and murders, and described the institutions as structurally violent and racist.
- Police unions, including Un1té and Alternative Police CFDT, condemned the remarks as insults and potential defamation and urged ARCOM and the judiciary to take action.
- Radio Nova publicly defended the chronicle as protected expression, said it would not accept threats, and noted the piece had no link to the November 13 commemorations.
- The controversy referenced a case in Bouches-du-Rhône involving an officer placed in pretrial detention over an alleged rape, and prosecutors have not announced any judicial outcome.