Sunday January 5, 19th arrondissement of Paris – About a hundred meters from a fire, Teri passes under the safety marker. With him, in a stroller, his 10-month-old son whom he wants to keep warm in his mother-in-law’s building, less than a meter behind the ribbon. “I recognize this wrong. There were people who had gone before me. We were just one step from the door,” he immediately begins on the phone.
But in front of the entrance to the building, the 27-year-old leisure center facilitator is stopped by the police. He claims to have tried to discuss, up to a sentence which, according to him, one of the officials said :
“You, of course, are known to the services. »
A sentence which implies that he would have already had problems with the police. “It shocked me. I have no problem with the law, I’m nice, I work. That sentence and the way they behaved, it made me angry,” Teri continues. Several agents surround him. One tries to take the stroller from him, others grab him around the neck and take him to the ground.
In the numerous videos captured by passers-by and local residents consulted by StreetPress, the young man cries out in pain under the mass of six officials who handcuff him. He denounces having received numerous blows along the back and body, but also a kick in the mouth and having had his ankle crushed. “I felt all the weights, all the blows… We don’t know what could happen,” he confides, his voice quavering.
Four disproportionate taser shots
Teri is then relieved by the officers and taken to a police vehicle, in front of which he resists. He explains that he was “scared” at the idea of getting into the unmarked car. In the images, we can see one of the police officers pressing with all his force on his head, while another threatens to use the taser. Four series of electrifications are then heard on the video.
-“The use of the electric pulse gun four times (PIE) on a handcuffed and controlled man appears disproportionate and would therefore not respect the legal criteria for the use of force”, analyzes Émilie Schmidt, responsible for “Security and freedoms” at the Action of Christians for the Abolition of Torture (ACAT). For Quitterie Berchon, campaign manager at Amnesty International, the use of the taser on contact “may amount to an act of torture or ill-treatment”. The weapon should only be used “as a last resort, in conditions of necessity and proportionality, in the face of an imminent threat to life or a risk of serious injury”, she judges in the light of international law .
Placed in police custody for “violence against a person holding public authority” and “rebellion”, Teri allegedly reported to the police that he had his “consumption” of cannabis on him. Banco, the man is now also being prosecuted for “possession of narcotics”. Requested by StreetPress, the Police Prefecture indicates that a “police officer was granted two days of temporary incapacity for work (ITT)” (1). Teri, for his part, would not have been issued “any ITT » tries the institution. Having been off work since the events, the man has in fact not yet been examined by a doctor from the Medical-Judicial Units. The medical certificate established by his attending physician, consulted by StreetPress, attests to multiple hematomas, swelling of the right ankle, dermabrasions (superficial injuries) to the wrists “corresponding to the break of excessively tight handcuffs according to him” as well as a “generalized state of anxiety” making him “unfit to resume his work with young children”.
After a refusal from the central police station of the 10th arrondissement of Paris, Teri filed a complaint on Wednesday January 8 to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) against the police. “A battle lost in advance” for her mother, but one that she cares about, “for all the victims who did not file a complaint, who were unable to raise their voice because they were not supported, did not have the means to defend, not knowledge of the device.” Summoned to court in March 2026, his son regrets the scale of the events:
“The real situation, that I just wanted to bring my son, it was forgotten. »
(1) Also asked about the comments and gestures attributed to the agents and the opening of an administrative investigation, the Police Prefecture did not respond to these questions.
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