Two investigating judges ordered Friday that Brice C., 34, be judged for a crime liable to fifteen years of criminal imprisonment.
A police officer, suspected of having wrapped the demonstrator Gyellow Jérôme Rodrigues with a Granada with a hand of desecration in January 2019 in Paris, will be tried before the Departmental Criminal Court, we learned from a source close to the file on Friday 24 January. Two investigating judges ordered that Brice C., 34, is judged for voluntary violence which led to mutilation or permanent infirmity by person depositary of the public authority in the exercise of his functions, that is to say a liable crime of fifteen years of criminal imprisonment, according to the accusation order consulted by AFP.
“This decision is the culmination of the fight of victims of police violence during the movement of yellow vests”reacted to AFP Me Arié Alimi, the lawyer of Jérôme Rodrigues, 45, who definitively lost the use of his right eye. “Behind the police officer who will be tried in criminal court, the national police, the Paris police headquarters and the policy ofEmmanuel Macron During the movement of the yellow vests which will be judged ”he added.
“In a state of self -defense”
On the other hand, the investigating judges ordered a dismissal in favor of a second police officer, suspected of having injured the leg Michaël, a friend of Jérôme Rodrigues, by a shot of defense ball launcher (LBD) . The two police officers had been charged in January 2021 for injured the two men.
On January 26, 2019, these police officers, members of intervention companies (CSI), intervened within the framework of a tense demonstration of Yellow vests Place de la Bastille in Paris. Many projectile jets of demonstrators on the police had required the use of a water launcher and tear gas grenades, recall the two magistrates. It was in this context that Jérôme Rodrigues had been injured in the eye.
-“Insurrectional context”
Brice C.'s lawyer argued that he had acted “In a state of self -defense”the grenade throwing having intervened “In an insurrectional context” et “In the direction of people who brought together the physical integrity of the police”is it specified in the order. But the testimonies and videos analyzed during the investigations made it possible to establish that “The group in which evolved Je Mérôd Rodrigues was not violent “ so did not constitute “A violent crowd (…) likely to allow the use of the public force”consider the investigating judges.
This criminal trial would be among the former concerning the violence committed by police during the demonstrations of “Yellow vests” Who started in the fall of 2018. Another police officer, Fabrice T., will also be judged by the Paris Departmental Criminal Court to have a wrangled grenade Manuel Coisne in November 2019.
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