A million euros will be paid directly to the more than 1,000 policemen injured during the demonstrations of "yellow vests", promised Thursday the president of the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region Renaud Muselier, who launched a pot of support to law enforcement.
More than 1.4 million euros already collected. It was launched on January 8 on the online platform Leetchi in reaction to that created in support of former boxer Christophe Dettinger, suspected of assaulting two gendarmes in Paris during the act of 8 protesting the movement of " yellow vests ". Wednesday early afternoon, more than 1.4 million euros had been collected and the pot must remain open for 21 days.
"Let every injured person have his just return of national solidarity". "We will have a meeting in the coming days, to study the modalities put in place so that each casualty has its fair return of national solidarity," said Renaud Muselier. "The one who had 2 days of ITT is not the same as the one who had 15 days," he added.
The rest for the orphanages of the police. In addition to this million euros for the wounded, "the rest will go directly into the orphanages of the forces concerned, the police, gendarmes, firefighters, firefighters of Paris and the firefighters of Marseille for whom I have a whole affection particular, "said the president of the PACA region.
The head of the national police Eric Morvan had estimated Friday on France Inter that the police had "no need for kitty", before saying on Twitter that "the National Police is very sensitive to all your attention to his personal and especially his wounded ". "I want to thank the French who participated in this momentum of solidarity, it's really warm to the heart, for all colleagues," responded Wednesday Marc Silvera, Director of the Amicale of the National Police, an association close to the Alliance union created in 2012.