Several other newspapers, including the right-wing Le Figaro, reported the same facts with a shiver of horror, adding that the crowds had been chanting "A bas l'état, les flics et les patrons" ("Down with the state, the coppers and the bosses"), thereby domesticating the riot as part of the Parisian folklore of rebellion.
The coppers of H Division, played by Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn and Adam Rothenberg, are called upon to investigate every kind of crime imaginable against a convincing backdrop of poverty, industrialisation and social change.
As the suspect was led away, they chatted to him gamely, presenting an image of the age-old kinship between coppers and crooks.But in fact these days they have little in common.
But while the coppers are much as they ever were, the criminals have changed.
Coppers meet daily to determine priorities.
And, if nothing else, the coppers get some idea of how extremist organisations work.
Giving out more might harm relations with the public, senior coppers say.
In such cases, coppers often take what Ms Stanko terms "sympathetic withdrawal statements" and do not press the matter further.If the police believe courts do not look kindly on many rape victims, they are right.
They point out that many coppers lack proper training: a report by the Association of Chief Police Officers last year found that just ten out of 42 police forces in England and Wales had special sexual-assault investigation-teams.
There was much talk of an "extended police family" consisting of coppers, guards and local-government workers.
Relations between coppers and the community have been transformed since then, he reckons.
