French journalist who became a policeman exposes racism and violence

Valentin Gendrot claims that violence was so frequent that it had become almost banal and describes an incident that had been forced to help fake evidence against a teenager who had been beaten by a policeman.

I'm actually friends listening to police officials, who are representatives of the state, calling people like “bastarde” black, Arab or immigrant, but everyone did,” he says, follows Periscopi.

Only a minority of policemen were violent... but they were always violent. ”

The journalist spent nearly six months at a police station in one of the <x0).arrossements”, where strong northern Paris relations between the law and residents are severe.

In his book published today, Gendrot found that he had been given uniform and weapons only after three months of training. /Periscope