Valentin Gendrot

Cop (eBook, ePUB)

a journalist infiltrates the police
Übersetzer: Wynne, Frank

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The story of a French journalist who infiltrated the country's police force, revealing a culture of racism and violence in which officers act with impunity.What happens behind the walls of a police station? In order to answer this question, undercover journalist Valentin Gendrot puts his life on hold for two years. He decides to undertake training and become a police officer. Several months later, Gendrot is working in a police station in one of the tough northern arrondissements of Paris, where relations between the law and locals are strained.Gendrot hides nothing. He witnesses police brutality, racism, blunders, and cover-ups. But he also sees the oppressive working conditions that officers endure, and mourns the tragic suicide of a colleague.Asking important questions about who holds institutional power and how we can hold them to account, Cop is a gripping expos of a world never before seen by outsiders.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781922585165
• Artikelnr.: 72466020

Autorenporträt

Born in 1988, Valentin Gendrot worked on local newspapers and radio after graduating from journalism college, and carried out several undercover investigations - including working on a Toyota production line and in a Lidl supermarket - before joining the Paris police force.