Four police officers will soon be tried for acts of violence that occurred in the XIX police statione district of Paris on a man they had just arrested last July, the Paris prosecutor’s office said this Tuesday, December 17, 2024.AFPconfirming information from Liberation .
According to the public prosecutor, three of these officials will be tried for having “slapped, kicked and punched” on a man, or intentional violence by a person holding public authority, in the exercise of his duties and in a meeting, leading to total incapacity for work of more than eight days, in this case four days. A fourth official will be tried for complicity in these facts.
False police reports
On July 28, a team of police officers arrested a man in the XVIIIe district for violence with weapons then placed him in custody at the XIX police statione district, according to the prosecution. From the same source, in police reports, “the only use of force mentioned was to bring the arrested person to the ground”even though in police custody, she indicated “having been assaulted by the police”.
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“He described being pushed against a wall and being elbowed in the neck while being transported in a vehicle. Once at the police station, he described being slapped on the head, then taken to a room where he was again slapped and kicked, as well as being crushed to the ground while held down by his feet. shod »detailed the prosecution.
Placed under judicial supervision
One of the accused will also be tried for forgery in public documents, in a report which the courts suspect of having been erroneous, because it notably recounted that in the search room, the person in custody had “thrown to the ground and debated, hitting his head against the open locker doors”.
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The four police officers were placed in police custody on December 11 and then presented to a public prosecutor, who summoned them for a first procedural correctional hearing scheduled for March 13, 2025. They were placed under judicial supervision with a ban on entering into custody. contact between them, as well as for three of them to carry a weapon and exercise any public function.
