It is an emblematic address in the history of Paris, responsible for the darkest hours that the capital has known. This Monday, at 3:15 p.m., the mayor (PS) of Paris Anne Hidalgo and her security deputy Nicolas Nordman will inaugurate a new “security professions school”, at 10 rue Nicolas-Appert, in the Richard Lenoir district ( 11th).
Premises into which 9 years earlier, on January 7, 2015, the Kouachi brothers entered armed with assault rifles to murder twelve people, including cartoonists and journalists Wolinski, Charb, Cabu, Tignous, and Honoré. Asked this Sunday to react to these choices of premises, the City did not respond to us.
“Let life go on”
These 280 m2 premises, owned by the Real Estate Agency of the City of Paris (RIVP), the second largest social landlord in the municipality, remained sadly empty for more than a year after the attacks. In spring 2016, the SOS group, a social enterprise, set up there. At the time, Jean-Marc Borello, president of the SOS group, confessed to having had “an emotion upon entering the premises” but also felt that “life had to go on”.
The premises, once again free, have therefore returned to the bosom of the City, which aims to make its municipal police force the largest in France, with 5,000 agents eventually. In this project, 56 trainers will provide initial education and continuing training for some 3,000 agents of the Prevention, Security and Protection Department of the City of Paris (DPMP), already in post or newly recruited.
The City wanted to include in this training modules on the theme of sexist and sexual outrages on public roads, or on that of domestic violence and violence committed against people from the LGBTQI community. The Parisian municipal police force has sometimes been the subject, within its ranks, of sexist, racist or harassment abuses.
