In November 2021, a plainclothes police officer was the victim of a violent attack on public transport. The attackers, including a minor at the time of the events, will be judged this Monday, January 20 in Pontoise.
The victim, an off-duty police officer, thought he lost his life. From Monday January 20 in Pontoise, his attackers, including a minor at the time of the events, will be tried at the assizes, more than three years after the violent attack on public transport.
They appear before the juvenile court, which judges behind closed doors, due to the minority in 2021 of the main accused.
Now aged 20, he is accused of having punched, kicked and slapped an off-duty police officer 18 times in a scene of “exceptional intensity of violence”, writes the investigating judge in his referral order.
Beaten up for six long minutes
This Tuesday, November 2, 2021, the 26-year-old police officer, stationed at the Ile-de-France Network Brigade (BRF) and one of his colleagues take line H of the Transilien Gare du Nord, in Paris, to return to their respective homes in the Val-d’Oise.
They chat, noticing in the distance a group of four young men who are rowdy in the train. They too took the last train to Persan in Paris. The minor in the group, 17 years old at the time, was heavily alcoholic, like his companions. He physically attacks a passenger, accused of stealing his phone.
-Once the victim's colleague leaves the train, the group approaches the plainclothes police officer and surrounds him. One of the young people, 23 years old that day, sits opposite him. His face is hidden. At the same time, the minor begins to hit the victim, in an outburst of violence. He is beaten for six long minutes.
Passenger intervention saves his life
The policeman calls for help, declines his role as a police officer and shows his Navigo pass marked “national police”. The violence continues. The 23-year-old attacker punched him. A third prevents him from leaving the train.
The main aggressor puts his arm around the police officer's neck and brings him to the ground. For more than a minute, he was strangled. He is no longer breathing, groans are escaping, he is on the verge of fainting.
According to the investigation, it was the intervention of a passenger, after hearing the cries for help, which put an end to the strangulation, which could have been lethal after three minutes. During the investigation, the police officer indicated that he did not take out his administrative weapon, which he carried with him, for fear of causing collateral victims or of being prosecuted.
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