LFI deputies denounce on Friday the " multiplication " of " police violence " since the establishment of the state of health emergency and " urge the Prime Minister to act " faced with " this deleterious situation ", in a letter addressed to Edouard Philippe .
According to the Insoumis, " several people died following confinement checks in often troubled circumstances " and " situations of violence have multiplied, in Ulis, in Lilas, in Villeneuve-La-Garenne, in Lille, in Roubaix, in Tourcoing, in Marseille ”.
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The parliamentary group LFI is also indignant " recordings of racist insults and laughter mixed with the cries of pain of a man arrested after having thrown himself into the Seine to escape the police ". A reference to an arrest on the night of April 25 to 26 in L'Ile-Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), where a video, published on social networks, allows one to hear the racist comments of police officers - two have since been suspended - then cries of pain, presented as those of the person arrested, accompanied by laughter seeming to emanate from the officials.
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In this case, the man arrested, Samir, an undocumented worker of Egyptian nationality and currently unemployed, filed a complaint against X. He claims to have been subjected to violence and, according to his lawyer, was thrown into the Seine "out of fear ". The rebels demand " emergency measures " to restore " a relationship of trust and benevolence " between police and citizens. They propose in particular the establishment of " identity control receipts ", " the demilitarization of equipment " by prohibiting " LBD ", and the association of " local authorities " or " neighborhood committees " with police patrols .
