An administrative investigation by the IGPN (General Inspectorate of the National Police) had led to the organization of a disciplinary council and disciplinary sanctions, but it is now justice that is looking into this case.
Confirming information from AFP, the Paris prosecutor's office announced this Tuesday to the Parisian to open an investigation for "willful violence by persons holding public authority", "public insults due to origin, ethnicity, nation , race or religion ”and“ public insults on the grounds of sex or sexual orientation ”, after the denunciations of racist remarks and mistreatment for which the police would have been responsible, at the filing of the Paris court between 2017 and 2019 These new investigations will also be entrusted to the IGPN, specifies the prosecution.
Monday, the Streetpress site revealed that in a report made in March 2019 to his hierarchy, Brigadier-Chief Amar Benmohamed denounced “racist remarks” made “regularly” on the part of a peacekeeper to “the address of referrals of foreign origin ”, as well as the term used to qualify them by this woman and a colleague:“ the bastards ”.
"More than a thousand defendants have been mistreated"
In the article on the online news site, this police official says that "over a little over two years, more than a thousand defendants have been mistreated" at the depot of the Paris court, where he is assigned and where they are being held. people waiting to be brought to justice. Among the words that the civil servant, who is also a union delegate at SGP-Police Unit, claims to have heard, the "Shut up, dirty bitch", rub shoulders with "niggers", "dirty race", or even "I would throw all that in the Seine ”. "If they let me do it, I would set fire to all these merguez", he also assured to have heard in the jails of the court.
Following an administrative inquiry by the IGPN in February, "a disciplinary council will be held in September for one of the officials and administrative sanctions, reprimands and warnings, are being notified for five others" in view of "The seriousness of the alleged facts," the police headquarters announced on Monday. A police officer is referred to a disciplinary council and five others will be subject to sanctions after the report of another police officer for acts of racism or mistreatment at the filing of the Paris judicial court, she detailed.
A complaint for "moral harassment"
In addition to reporting the facts to the Paris prosecutor, Amar Benmohamed announced that he had filed a complaint with a civil party for alleged facts of “moral harassment” against him after his reports, his lawyer, Arié Alimi, said on Monday.
"Six representatives of the Comptroller General of places of deprivation of liberty carried out from October 7 to 9, 2019 a complete visit of the premises of the depot, following which a provisional report was sent to the heads of jurisdiction on December 19, 2019", had specified Monday the Paris prosecutor's office
