A hundred people gathered Monday in Bondy (Seine-Saint-Denis) to demand "justice" for Gabriel, a 14 year old teenager seriously injured in the eye after a police arrest a week ago, found a journalist of AFP.
PSG striker Kylian Mbappé posted a message on his Instagram account also demanding "justice for Gabriel" . "Whether they are from here or elsewhere, police violence, same combat," wrote the international tricolor, also from Bondy.
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According to the police version, the teenager was seen trying to steal a scooter from Bondy on the evening of May 25 and allegedly fled at the sight of the police before falling and resisting his arrest. The General Inspectorate of National Police (IGPN) was seized.
Injured seriously to the eye, Gabriel is hospitalized at the Necker hospital for sick children in Paris where he must have surgery, said the family lawyer, Stéphane Gas, who says he will file Tuesday in Bobigny complaint for "violence in assembly by a person holding public authority".
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After his arrest, the young person was prescribed 30 days of total incapacity for work (ITT). His condition was not compatible with police custody, according to Mr. Gas. He suffers from a broken eye socket and has three broken teeth.
"How can Gabriel lose three incisors, suffer from the eye socket or have no abrasion on the nose?" The police will have to explain how he was able to fall on his own, ” denounces the lawyer.
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Present at the rally, Chérif, his older brother, said he was "shocked" and convinced that the police beat Gabriel. " How can we do this to a child?" He is traumatized. How could they go after a little boy who weighs 40 kg? , wonders the young man of 23 who claims "justice and truth" for his brother.
For Eric Coquerel, LFI deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis, "there is no reason why a child should end up in the emergency room". "There is a disproportion of violence with a child who risks losing his eye," denounced the elected official present at the gathering alongside leftist figures like Sergio Coronado, environmental activist from Bondy, EELV senator Esther Benbassa or even Vikash Dhorasoo, LFI candidate for municipal elections in Paris.
