It was a fleeting moment. A rare testimony of empathy. On January 11, 2015, after the attacks against Charlie Hebdoa professor from Arras, hat on his head, breaks away from the Republican march organized that day, to go and embrace a CRS, a solid 32-year-old man from Martinique. It was time for communion, for recognition. The crowd applauded the law enforcement vans intended to secure the march.
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Then everything went back to the way it was before: “If you are proud to be CRS, hit your colleague”we shout in the processions against the pension reform in 2023. Eighty years after the creation of their corps, the approximately 13,520 CRS remain the least popular police officers, those that no television series risks put forward.
We must go back to the chaotic origins to understand the roots of this antipathy. On December 8, 1944, six months after the Landing, General de Gaulle and the Minister of the Interior of the then provisional government, Adrien Tixier, decided to dissolve the mobile reserve groups (GMR) and replace them, the same day, by the Republican Security Companies (CRS). The first units, created in 1941 by the Vichy government, carried the sulphurous image of auxiliary forces of the occupier. They cracked down in particular against the maquis of Bergerac, in Dordogne, in the Massif Central, and sealed off the Vercors while German troops were tracking down resistance fighters there.
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