Howler monkeys: a policeman will be deprived of his medal of honor for racism

A procedure for the withdrawal of the medal has been instituted against a squadron leader of the gendarmerie, with regard to the racist comments on the Guyanese

A procedure for the withdrawal of the medal has been instituted against a squadron leader of the gendarmerie, with regard to the racist comments on the Guyanese in a speech.

The ministry of foreign Affairs initiated the procedure to withdraw the medal of honor awarded to a policeman who had compared the Guyanese to “monkeys howling”, has announced Monday, a deputy spokesman, confirming a information site Mediapart.

“We can confirm that the ministry of European and foreign Affairs has launched a procedure for the withdrawal of the medal of honor of foreign Affairs assigned to that person,” he said. “This decision reflects the ministry’s commitment to the fight against racism, anti-semitism and discrimination”, he added.

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The squadron leader of the gendarmerie, was delivered on April 21, 2018, in a speech concluding a mission to the site, to what it has called an “allegory” on the local population. “What unique wildlife that all of these howler monkeys throwing as much profanity as concrete block, and to mark their territory, the little cayman soaking day and night in alcohol,” he started, according to his speech, revealed by The World and LCI.

A disciplinary proceedings initiated

the minister of The Interior Gérard Collomb reported in may 2018, “remarks unacceptable and shocking”, and the rcmp initiated a disciplinary procedure against the head of the squadron.

The medal of foreign Affairs, which is awarded for “outstanding services performed on the national territory or outside of France, he had been awarded on 27 February 2018 for training activities in Iraq, said the ministry.

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The Wharf has explained that he initiated the procedure of removing as soon as he had “knowledge of these facts, as well as administrative sanction of the recipient, items that don’t (him) had not been reported previously”. The nature of the sanction has not been communicated.

may 18, 2018, or a few days after the opening of the disciplinary proceedings, a decree signed by the minister of foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian, had confirmed its decoration, recalled Mediapart.

Date Of Update: 16 June 2020, 11:58

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Source: newstars.edu.vn

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