On June 13 a police officer named Jean-Baptiste Salvaing and his wife, a police department employee named Jessica Schneider, were stabbed to death by an Islamic terrorist at their home in a suburb of Paris. Their three-year-old son witnessed the murders. He was rescued by police, who shot and killed the mujahid.

On Friday June 17 a rally in memory Jean-Baptiste Salvaing and Jessica Schneider was held at the Place du Trocadéro in Paris. Among the speakers were Christine Tasin of Résistance Républicaine and a police officer named Sébastian Jallamion.

Mr. Jallamion had already been suspended from duty for posting negative remarks about Islam on Facebook. When he spoke at the rally, he was violating his “obligation of reserve”, that is, the restrictions placed on a police officer regarding public statements on political matters.

Below are the speeches given at the Trocadéro event by Sébastian Jallamion and Christine Tasin. Many thanks to Oz-Rita for the translations, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Video 1, Sébastian Jallamion:

Video 2, Christine Tasin:

Transcript video 1:

00:00 I thank the organisers for inviting me to this event

00:04 and allowing me to bring my testimony.

00:08 As was said, I am a police officer, which signifies that,

00:12 speaking before you, I commit an act of resistance, because I am

00:16 restricted to an obligation of reserve.

00:20 Consequently I dedicate this act of resistance

00:24 to my colleagues, and it’s in their name that I speak,

00:28 those who cannot speak and who are today bruised and

00:32 battered, not only by the drama that took place on the evening of the 13th

00:36 affecting two of us in what they had that was most precious,

00:41 the most sacred, the most intimate: their family home.

00:45 But also bruised because for too long

00:49 they have been on all fronts: on the front of

00:53 illegal immigration in Calais. On the front

00:57 of urban violence, which is managed badly by our executive, which does not

01:01 give the necessary orders for us to arrest those whom we have fully

01:05 identified.

01:09 On all fronts because,

01:13 as has been well said, we are understaffed and have been for a long time.

01:17 I remind you that during the five years of Sarkozy, 12,500

01:22 police and gendarmes have been removed via

01:26 the non-replacement of one out of two staff who retired.

01:30 These positions have still not been filled, even while

01:34 an increased police activity continues to weigh

01:38 on the work of my colleagues who find themselves

01:42 having to investigate 200 to 300 files each, which is unmanageable.

01:46 And yet nothing is done. We know that our country

01:50 is under terrorist threat. We have identified the perpetrators;

01:54 we knew who this Larossi Abballa was. He had been

01:59 arrested, he was tried, he was sentenced to three years

02:03 In prison for organising a jihadist network between France and Pakistan

02:07 in 2013: WHAT WAS HE DOING ON THE OUTSIDE?

02:15 This individual, who was overseen by the former anti-terrorist judge

02:19 Marc Trevedic (whom I thank for his frank speech

02:23 and his will to enlighten opinion), had been clearly identified

02:27 as somebody unpredictable. He was under surveillance; he was the subject

02:31 of an “S” classification. Why is it that no one was able to prevent him from acting?

02:35 This is completely scandalous, it’s scandalous to know

02:39 that we had identified, that we had passed the information up to the executive

02:44 that there are 4000 of these Larossi Abballas on our territory ready to act

02:48 At a moment’s notice.

02:52 All this, ladies and gentlemen,

02:56 is a question of political will. We must refuse

03:00 this discourse held by our executive, consisting of saying

03:04 we must be resilient, live with it, meaning we must act as if

03:08 it was inevitable. This is completely wrong. We have

03:12 if we get clear instructions, the means

03:17 to protect you. But I will point out those who are responsible — you may not like it —

03:21 but the man responsible — I will remind you, Ladies and Gentlemen,

03:25 are those who voted for François Hollande,

03:29 it’s those who voted Socialist, these people did not get into power

03:33 by a coup d’état. That’s why I repeat the call

03:37 to resistance which I sent out to all my colleagues, I call them to do the same

03:41 thing I do, to let go of their obligation of reserve so as to inform the public,

03:45 because it is they who vote and who can give us an executive who will stay the distance.