The broadcast on twitter of a video in which the police made racist and offensive remarks provoked a referral to the police on Sunday and the anger of an LFI deputy.
On this video posted on Sunday afternoon on the twitter account of the journalist of the site Over there if I am there, Taha Bouhafs, police officers are filmed after an arrest and have racist comments against a suspect qualified as "Bicot" . The scene clearly takes place at night and on Ile-Saint-Denis, according to Taha Bouhafs.
"A bicot like that doesn't swim , " we hear. "Haha it's flowing, you should have hung a ball on his foot," he added, suggesting that the agents took the suspect out of the water from the nearby Seine. In other images, the police are heard to laugh and muffled noises coming from the police van where the arrested man who seems to be screaming has been placed.
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In a message to AFP, the prefecture of police said it seized the general inspection of the national police (IGPN). “A video showing a police intervention in Ile-Saint-Denis is circulating on social networks. The Police Prefect will seize the IGPN in order to shed light on the circumstances in which the police intervened and to determine the identity of the authors of the words heard, " said the PP.
According to the prefecture, the police intervened in the context of a meeting robbery. Taha Bouhafs claims that the police force depends on the Hauts-de-Seine, which AFP could not confirm from police sources.
An "unacceptable" video
LFI deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis, Eric Coquerel, denounced a video described as "unacceptable". "I don't know what the latter did, I do know that on October 17, 1961, the bodies of Algerians drowned by the police were found on these same banks. To hear such racist comments and behavior from police officers today is a disgrace and a great concern, " lambasted Coquerel. "With the mayor of Île-Saint-Denis Mohammed Gnabally, we are in contact with the authorities to find out more about these reprehensible acts ," he added in a press release.
