Considering that the police officers who had arrested him should take him back to his car or home. The police officer who had released him tried, for five minutes, to explain to him that there were other ways to get back and that the police were not a taxi service.
But the young man was insistent, did not want to hear anything and uttered insults. According to the police officer, while he asked him to step back, the young person moved forward. So twice, to maintain a safe distance, he pushed him away with both hands, with force.
“A non-violent young man, extremely cultured with a gift for writing”: who is the 28-year-old maniac arrested with a knife in front of the 16th?
Seeing that things were likely to go wrong, a police officer at reception called for reinforcements inside the police station. A second agent arrived, in possession of the gas “family” – device more powerful than individual pepper spray – used during the fight in the bar where he had previously intervened. And he fired the jet three times in the direction of the young man. The latter, believing that he had suffered violence without legitimate reason, contacted Committee P and contested the content of the report drawn up by the participants. And the video surveillance images from the entrance to the police station seem to go in his direction.
In fact, the investigators who analyzed them did not see the attempted blows justifying the strong pushes of the first police officer, and the jets of spray occurred while the young person was retreating and did not represent a danger.
The King’s prosecutor Marc Rézette, who made the request in person at the hearing on Tuesday morning, conceded that it was difficult to evaluate a police intervention after the fact, when it is part of a context and that both Defendants have a difficult job. But for him, the police actually used violence without legitimate reason. He therefore requested two 60-hour work sentences.
The defense lawyers highlighted the young man’s provocations and his arrogance towards experienced police officers, who have never been in trouble in 20 years of service. The person who activated the gas was called by the police officer at reception, and reacted based on the information that had been given to him…
Mainly, it was the acquittal that was requested by the counsel for the two police officers.
The judgment will be delivered on February 4.
