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On December 1, 2018, during the yellow vest movement, CRS officers were filmed beating protesters on the ground in a Parisian restaurant. The judicial investigation, which is coming to an end, and several administrative documents attest to the institution’s passivity and leniency towards its agents.
Five years of laborious and meticulous investigations culminated in the so-called Burger King investigation. On December 1, 2018, agents from a Republican Security Company (CRS) entered a restaurant of the fast-food chain on Avenue de Wagram, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, where protesters had taken refuge, and beat them with batons and kicked them. In this case, one of the most emblematic of the surge in police violence that occurred during the yellow vest movement, nine civil servants were indicted for violence. At the end of July, the Paris prosecutor’s office requested that they be referred to the criminal court. All that remains now is for the investigating judge to decide whether or not they will be tried. But what has been happening behind the scenes at the Ministry of the Interior since the events? The judicial investigation and several administrative documents from the files of the agents in question, consulted by Release, attest to the unwavering support they received within the national police.
On Saturday, December 1, 2018, the third day of action of the yellow vest revolt
