Tourcoing's main police station has maintained complete silence for two weeks. For the young people, this case is strangely reminiscent of a police mistake five years ago. A young man, of foreign origin, had also died, beaten to death by a drunken policeman in Wattrelos. An association official admits that the neighborhood youths regularly complain of the violence of certain policemen. It's always the main police station.
Relations are pretty normal with the other police stations.
The city of Tourcoing hardly differs from other French cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants. Juvenile delinquency and unemployment are certainly high, but no study has ever revealed that the situation there might be more tense than elsewhere. In these situations, tragedies sometimes occur. Perhaps it is time to review police training and put the principles of police ethics back on the agenda. There is a Higher Council of Police Ethics.