The Paris prosecutor's office has opened an investigation after a handrail filed by Yann Manzi, an association figure for aid to migrants, who claimed to have witnessed in police custody the beating of a man by police in a Paris police station, a AFP learned Thursday from the public prosecutor.
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This investigation was opened on September 9 for violence by a person holding public authority, and the investigations were entrusted to the police ethics service (SDSE).
Five days earlier, Yann Manzi had denounced in a handrail the beating of a man at the police station of the nineteenth arrondissement of Paris, where he himself was in police custody after intervening during a gendarmerie check targeting exiles.
According to Mr. Manzi, the man was severely beaten by police officers because he started banging on the windows of the cell where he was.
“
One of the police officers strangled the individual who immediately fell in love,
” he said in his statement, which AFP was aware of.
The police then "
slapped him to wake him up (...) and then hit him up again
", he added, indicating that the man had "
his face in blood
".
In a video posted on the Konbini website, Mr. Manzi said there were at least three police officers and that among them was the head of the post.
On September 4, the Paris prosecutor's office announced that it had opened an investigation after the publication of a book in which a journalist infiltrated for two years in the Paris police, Valentin Gendrot, spoke of “
beatings
” and “
racist
”
practices
committed by officials from the same police station in the capital's 19th arrondissement.
This investigation was entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN).