Two Toulouse police officers have been charged and placed in pre-trial detention, suspected of having asked for money during a speeding check in exchange for a lack of verbalization, the public prosecutor said on Tuesday .
The peacekeeper and the police brigadier, both assigned to the Colomiers police station west of Toulouse, were arrested and placed in police custody Saturday after a complaint from the manager of a sushi and d delivery company. one of its employees.
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The latter had been speeded during the night of February 14 to 15. According to his statements, "two of the police officers present on the road control device (they) offered to give them several hundred euros in cash in return for the lack of verbalization," said the prosecutor, Dominique Alzéari, in a communicated. The complainant had in his possession an audio recording of the exchanges which led to this illicit transfer of funds, according to the prosecutor.
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Monday, the prosecution opened a judicial investigation, including the charge of corruption offenses. The two police officers "agreed on the materiality of these acts and the sharing of the proceeds of this corruption pact , " according to Mr. Alzéari. The prosecutor co-seized the IGPN Antenne de Bordeaux and the SRPJ de Toulouse for the continuation of the investigations.
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