Three police officers were sentenced on appeal Tuesday to three years in prison, including two years in prison, 18 months in prison, including one year in prison and six months in prison, respectively, for the illegal and violent arrest of a Afghan refugee in Marseille.
The two police officers sentenced to the heaviest penalties by the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal, who appeared detained but were not kept in detention, were found guilty of kidnapping and forcible confinement, false and willful violence . The third member of this highway CRS crew was a young woman, a security assistant.
CCTV cameras had filmed the muscular arrest of Jamshed, a 27-year-old Afghan, holder of a residence permit, on April 12 on the Old Port of Marseille. The police, who intervened in the context of the containment control, suspected him of spitting on two passers-by who allegedly refused him a cigarette. It had been thrown against the police vehicle after an arm key, then placed inside.
"It feels good, it relieves"
"I farted a cable, we made a huge dumpling," admitted Michel Provenzano, the skipper, and brigadier, during the first hearing. "We had this guy on our arms, we didn't know what to do with it."
The young man was then transported to an isolated site in Châteauneuf-les-Martigues, about thirty kilometers from Marseille. On the spot, Michel Provenzano had deposited in the empty pocket his sunglasses and his service weapon "not to make bullshit", he declared in court.
Behind a hillock, the young Afghan would then have received "a punch or a slap", according to the security assistant, but this violence is disputed by his two colleagues.
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Once Jamshed abandoned, Michel Provenzano will let go: "It feels good, it relieves", according to the security assistant. The two men then decided to write a false report indicating that they left the young refugee at the police station.