Letter to Nicolas Sarkozy, Minister for Police
Liberties Jean Jacques Reboux
An open letter to Nicolas Sarkozy, Minister
for Police
liberties. The edition; After the Moon, has published the book an Open
Letter to Nicolas Sarkozy, Minister for Police Liberties, in Context. The security of France is at a sad year zero, eight months before the Presidential election. The reasons for the anger: Police violence with impunity, implicitly tolerated by the attitude of the Interior Minister who is obsessed with the all repressive demagogic electorate. The facts: 24th July 2006, 19.00hrs, avenue de Clichy, 17th arrondissement, Paris. How a simple traffic control required a citizen to spend 3 hours in police headquarters, handcuffed at wrist and ankle, to have contested an incident, and secondly for committing the grave offence of swearing at an agent (consisting of saying an uncouth word to an official agent), for rebelling ( refusing to be let loose amongst a dozen furious , violent and aggressive flics). This culminated in the cold on the lips, little phrase, heard from the mouth of a flic who behaved like the militia, who, beat me on the sides with his rubber truncheon. You have the chance to be President! Referring to, one understands, the Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, election candidate for May 2007. Whilst awaiting my call to the tribunal, and because of this little phrase, I decided to write to this Interior Minister who has the tendency for public liberties more and more exclusively police liberties. The content of the book: It is comprised of three parts. Firstly, I describe the insidious mechanisms of this incident (arrogant provocation by the police, near panic of the citizen taken by surprise). Finally, it is futile to state my own personal case and to loose my dignity through the intervention of others. And now, attention, I appeal to each one of you. If after May 2007, I did not have this adventure, and, without giving this letter a public resonance, its ultimate subject should not aspire to high public office in the Republic. The third part, finally is an untitled glossary. Regarding the police, their customs, their repertoire, the various means offered by society to protect citizens from certain of their members on duty. Jean-Jacques Reboux for sale through editions After the Moon, wwwapreslalune.com