After meeting on Monday evening at his Matignon headquarters with representatives of police unions, the prime minister issued a communique in which he stated the increase to 30 years of the security sentence to those condemned to life imprisonment for a crime against police officers.

On May 5, police officer Eric Masson, 36, was killed, while investigating activity at a known drug-dealing site in Avignon, an attack that shocked society.

Castex insisted on the need to strengthen the punishment to the aggressors of police officers, while Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti, called for a ‘strict firmness’ by the attorneys in the prosecution of those cases.

The French Government also informed the establishment as of July 1 of a criminal response observatory, a mechanism destined to deal with crimes committed against the internal security forces.

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