what the IGPN investigation reveals – Libération

After a spontaneous demonstration against the pension reform in April 2023, three people arrested for setting fire to a trash can filed a complaint with the IGPN, denouncing a “police ploy”. Two of the three young people accused are on trial today.

The “hero” of the demonstrations against pension reform last year, insulted at the end of March 2023 by the Brav-M police officers, then erected as a symbol of police repression on the front page of New York Timesdid he turn out to be, two weeks later, a “trash burner”? This is what the right-wing and far-right press proclaimed, revealing that Souleyman A. had been placed in police custody on the evening of April 14, 2023, for “destruction of property by means dangerous to others”.

Depending on the version delivered to Figaro the next day, according to a police source, the Chadian student was arrested that evening while he “kept watch”, the time that two of his comrades set fire to a trash can in the center of Paris. However, the prosecution revealed on April 16 that the proceedings against Souleyman had been dismissed due to lack of an offense. “sufficiently characterized”. Worse, then supported the student with CheckNewsthis trash fire would result from a “police ploy” consisting of inciting demonstrators to