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Paris, Sep 19 (EFE), (Camera: Ana Ayesa/ Josep Puig).- French journalist Valentin Gendrot infiltrated the country’s police force during six months to write "Flic", a book in which he denounces endemic problems and violence.SOUNDBITES OF UNDERCOVER JOURNALIST VALENTIN GENDROT DURING AN INTERVIEW WITH EFE:"Racist and physical violence by police officers is a minority.""It was very hard. It is like a roller coaster. There are moments like this when I was afraid, others when I was stupefied, surprised, and there were others when I was bored when I had to keep watch at the police station entrance all morning or all afternoon without doing much, you have time and you get bored"."The policeman lives in a very virile universe, you have to pretend that everything is going well, always.""When I was infiltrated at the 19 district, a policeman who I did not know committed suicide and this makes us wonder. Why? And the truth is that there are many reasons. The working conditions are difficult, a part of the hates detests you, hierarchy does not exist. You fight with violence every day."
Several dozen police cars, decked with flags and their horns honking, drive down the Champs-Elysées in Paris on their way to the interior ministry to protest recent comments by the government on police violence. The protest came at the behest of the police trade union Alliance in response to comments by interior minister Christophe Castaner, who recently acknowledged that too many officers "have failed in their Republican duty", with several instances of racist and discriminatory remarks revealed. IMAGES
People arrive at the Savigny-sur-Orge mosque, during the funeral of Shemseddine, a 15-year-old French teenager beaten to death after school in Viry-Chatillon, south of Paris. Mats and sheets are held up as the hearse arrives in strict privacy at the request of the family. IMAGES
Images from the "Les Sablons" school where a 15-year-old teenager was beaten up by several people on Thursday afternoon as he left his secondary school in Viry-Chatillon, south of Paris, and has since been hospitalised with a life-threatening condition. IMAGES
Mexican soldiers and police guard the scene where at least five bodies and several charred skeletal remains, including five skulls, have been found on a highway in the industrial state of Nuevo Leon, in northern Mexico. IMAGES
A rally against anti-Semitism organised by French far-left party La France Insoumise (France Unbowed) is disrupted by demonstrators carrying signs reading "Touche pas à la mémoire" ("Don't touch our remembrance"), in criticism of party leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon's stance on recent events. The protest took place near the site of the former Vél d'Hiv in Paris, where Jews were infamously rounded up and detained during the second World War before being sent to camps. IMAGES
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