the shock wave of a massacre in the heart of the state

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The killing of the Prefecture of Police (PP) is a long-slew attack, of which we discover more, each passing day, the exorbitant tribute that it could require from the forces of order, institutions and the whole of the society. By striking the state from the inside, in the heart of one of its most impregnable citadels, Mickaël Harpon not only killed four of his colleagues, leaving as many families bereaved before being shot himself, he threw a slow-exploding bomb into a tears-torn France, which had quickly believed in the power of its resilience.

By naming the enemy – "The Islamist hydra" – and calling for a "Vigilance society", Emmanuel Macron saw his five-year period change, as before François Hollande. If a week after the attack that took place within the Directorate of Intelligence of the Prefecture of Police (DRPP), investigators remain cautious about the terrorist qualification of the attack, the profile of the author leaves little doubt on the substratum, that of an Islamist radicalization that has gone unnoticed by the police hierarchy. A failure that questions the entire control system, which sows the seeds of psychosis within the police and comes to work the sutures of a French company already on the verge of rupture.

In the national police, the day after

No superlative seems excessive to qualify the shock wave within the national police. "Catastrophe"looses a commissioner. "Earthquake"adds an officer. " It is Armageddon at the prefecture »summed up a peacekeeper. Even the big boss goes there. "It was a blast, says the World Eric Morvan, the director general of the national police. There is amazement, sadness, stupor too. This is the worst scenario you could think of. What all of us question is that a weak signal has not been exploited as it should have been, but I am convinced that no police service can claim to be immune. So it's a failure for everyone. There will be a before and after. "