“Anger and despair have gained the ranks of the PJ”

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“Our colleagues were worried, they are furious today,” warns Christophe Desmidt, vice-president of the National Association of Judicial Police.

By Nicholas Bastuck

Lhe dismissal of the director of the southern zone of the judicial police, Éric Arella, set fire to the powder within the PJ, already on hot coals with the reorganization projects in progress at the Ministry of the Interior.

In the house for twenty-seven years, Commander Christophe Desmidt heads the French anti-narcotics office in Montpellier (Hérault). Member of the National Association of Judicial Police (ANPJ), created last year and of which he is the vice-president, he alerts in this interview to the Point on “the state of despair” and the anger that animate his troops, after the sidelining of Mr. Arella. A decision he considers “scandalous” and “counterproductive”.

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