Lawyers denounced Wednesday, December 23 the weakness of the disciplinary sanction - three days of exclusion - recommended against a Hauts-de-Seine policeman who had declared, during an arrest of an Egyptian in April, that "
a bicot like that, it does not swim
”.
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For the lawyer of the arrested, Arié Alimi, "
this proposal, it is a real impunity, a laxity, which confirms a systemic racism (...) a racism of State in the police
".
“
Three days of exclusion, it's really ridiculous,
” he denounced.
"
3 days of exclusion?
Oh yes, the disciplinary council of the police
is not kidding, ”quipped on Twitter Me Yassine Bouzrou, who notably defends the family of Adama Traoré.
The recommendation comes from the disciplinary council of the Paris police headquarters, a joint body that brings together administration and unions.
The final decision must be taken at the level of the General Directorate of the National Police.
A police unionist from Hauts-de-Seine, who was elected to the disciplinary council for several years, judges the "
proportionate sanction
", considering that it "
marks the blow
" after "
condemnable remarks
".
"
A young colleague who takes three days will lead to three years of exclusion on the promotion tables, it seems a proportionate sanction
," he said on condition of anonymity.
On April 26 at around 1:30 a.m., police officers arrested a man suspected of theft of equipment on a construction site in Île-Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) and who, according to police sources, had tried to take the flight by throwing itself into the Seine.
"
A bicot like that, it does not swim
," said one of the police officers according to a video released by the journalist of the online media
Over There If I Am
, Taha Bouhafs, and visibly filmed after the officials released the man of the river.
“
Ha!
ha!
it's leaking, you should have hung a ball on its foot,
”we could also hear.
As announced by the Paris police chief Didier Lallement, the two police officers had been suspended for eight months - a precautionary measure that does not correspond to a sanction -, then reinstated in early December at their police station.
For these facts, one of them, who is part of the night staff of the Territorial Directorate of Public Security of Hauts-de-Seine, will have to answer for racist insults before the Bobigny Criminal Court in March.
For the defendant's lawyer, there should have been, without delay, a heavy disciplinary sanction.
"
When there are racist remarks, if there is no dismissal, it is because the State favors racism in the police
", added Me Alimi, who also affirms that his client suffered violence during his arrest.