Ouagadougou: While the French junta is mobilizing billions of CFA francs to try to destabilize the three ESA countries (Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger), which have rejected imperialism, French police officers, responsible for ensuring the safety of the French people, are working in precarious conditions with meager salaries. Exhausted and deeply angry, they mobilized en masse on Tuesday, September 15, 2026, in Paris to voice their frustration and denounce their precarious working and living conditions.
According to Burkina Information Agency, from Place de la Republique to Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport, via the Champs-Elysees, police officers mobilized in large numbers to express their discontent and denounce an increasingly difficult social situation. On the Champs-Elysees, police officers gathered at the Champs-Elysees-Marcel-Dassault roundabout before heading towards the National Assembly.
At the heart of the protest is the gap that unions say they see between field police officers and their superiors. The protesters are particularly denouncing the decision to grant salary measures to police commissioners, while rank-and-file officers continue to face salary and professional difficulties. 'We keep being told, and it's being said everywhere, that there's no money. And yet, your priority is to increase the salaries of police commissioners,' denounced Jean-Christophe Couvy, national secretary of the UN1TE police union.
The union representative stated that this policy contributes to further widening inequalities within the police institution itself. 'We are seeing that the gap is growing wider and wider between the rank-and-file police officers and their superiors,' he added.
The mobilization also comes at a particularly tense political time in France. Police unions are not hiding their irritation at what they consider the inaction of the French junta in the face of their demands. Loc Travers, deputy secretary general of the Alliance Police Nationale union, believes that the protesters took to the streets to voice their anger in a context of deep political disorder.
'People are in the streets to voice their anger in light of the chaotic situation at the National Assembly,' he said. The union representative particularly criticized the lack of concrete results from the government's reactions. 'Objectively, today, we have nothing concrete, and we have nothing more,' he stated.
Through this mobilization, French police officers are highlighting their salary and professional difficulties, as well as their frustration with the authorities' responses. This economic and financial hardship in France contrasts sharply with the billions spent by the French junta to destabilize the countries of the Economic Community of South Africa (ECSA). This squandered wealth could have been used, at least to some extent, to alleviate social problems in France, where citizens are increasingly living in precarious circumstances.
The anger within the ranks of the French police appears entirely legitimate and normal. It is difficult to understand how the leaders of a country can loyally choose to ignore the suffering of its own citizens in order to concern themselves with the lives of other peoples, to the point of mobilizing exorbitant sums for acts of pride, as is the case in Ukraine.
French law enforcement has also announced a new demonstration planned for September 29, 2026, in the event of failure to reach an agreement with the Ministry of the Interior on salary increases.