Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Thursday he understands the anger and sadness of the police. The protests, which manifest themselves mainly in code 562 – a minimum service provided in the units – and in sick leave, are difficult to quantify. The trigger for the movement came from Marseille with the incarceration of a BAC police officer, suspected of having beaten a 22-year-old man, with three other colleagues. The unions came to tell the minister that the police were "in full crisis", according to Linda Kebbab, national secretary of the union Unité SGP Police.