Cheops: the software that makes the blind font – M6info by MSN

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             Passport control by the Border Police at the Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport.
         
     

The case Cheops, a State scandal? This software is the police access to most of its working files portal hit the headlines at the turn of the case of three suspected jihadists that the police failed to Marseille airport, September 23 last.

The wanted person who surrendered the next day, however, were all stuck. And they came from Turkey, one of the riskiest destinations of the moment, neighboring Syria. But when the trio presented his papers to the control of the airport, no agent of the Border Police (PAF) has reacted. Cheops was “maintenance” for the afternoon and no files to identify them was therefore searchable. A problem “recurring” nobody talks yet, except for some police unions in their internal leaflets.

The government, surprised by the extent of the controversy over the failure, immediately deployed umbrella. An investigation by the Inspector General of Government (IGA) and the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), was launched by the Minister of Interior and statements more or less reassuring, have increased to the Elysee. The defense minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, himself has acknowledged: “There was a breakdown in Marseille, I know.”

And what bug! Reportedly, the Cheops gateway is subject to countless “service disruptions”. Often? “Regularly, sometimes one hour, sometimes a whole day. The system may be inoperative until three hours every other day. This was the case, a few months ago, “admitted a senior police officer of the PAF.

” The system may be inoperative until 3:00 every other day “

In this case, he told himself, “the police is blind since it can not access any of its files related to the current portal, whether those criminal record, the . terrorism or foreign “The problem arises in airports like in the police” Maintenance is National Cheops, “said the policeman

For the PAF, says a commissioner..” There two cases. First, foreign nationals entering the Schengen zone, Marseille, for example, from an international zone, and those are almost always passed to the file. But for Europeans who take the same way, the French, Germans, Spaniards, who may be jihadists, if the passport control is systematic, the transition to file by the agent of the PAF is than random. It is an obligation of the Schengen agreement. “

” Even when files are accessible, they are not always consulted. So imagine when the whole system is down for maintenance for hours! “Laments a great prefect very aware of security issues. “It has not been officially devised a system where the arrest occurs when switch. We must wait, “said a guardian of the peace authorized to Cheops.

” These failures are a problem vis-à-vis minors to the Roster of wanted persons (FPR) because they are likely to being kidnapped by a parent if they go abroad. But without Cheops, no RPF and the teenager gets on the plane, “a rage PAF officer.

Jean-Claude Delage, head of the Alliance union,” these computer malfunctions interfere the willingness to work of the police and should be settled without delay, otherwise it will be a day of serious incidents for homeland security. “

The case Cheops is far from over. The UMP group in the Assembly wants a commission of inquiry. “We have a right to draw a commission a year and it is on this fundamental issue that we want to act,” said Eric Ciotti, the UMP in the Alpes-Maritimes. With her colleagues, Pierre Lellouche, Paris, and Guillaume Larrivé, Yonne, they got the president of the UMP, Christian Jacob, the filing of a resolution for the creation of a commission of 30 members.

Its purpose: “Measuring the effectiveness of the monitoring and surveillance of individuals candidates for jihad, or returning from jihad and recruitment channels and return assistance they can borrow” . It is clear in the text, which should be voted on by the 200 members of the group, that “it will include studying (…) the operation of the card system Cheops in the police, the gendarmerie, the police border. “

To believe Pierre Lellouche,” that reveals the failure of Cheops and all malfunctions in the case of three jihadists is outrageous because we are at war against the jihadists and the only weapon we have is to register the file to hope to detect in time the return or departure, or during random checks, “he says.

” The resolution creating commission investigation will be discussed in the Committee on Laws and sitting, it is an obligation, “says Eric Ciotti. The government can distort the subject of the investigation or block the initiative though. Manuel Valls he take responsibility? If the commission is formed, it could be in January.