Haykal Rezgui Raouaji, a 37-year-old motorcycle policeman, will file a complaint against the national police for "racism, discrimination and moral harassment".
The file will be filed on Monday, his lawyer, Me Kaoutar Choukour, told the Parisian.
Originally from Toulouse, the civil servant worked in Nice, Nîmes, Vannes and in Île-de-France.
A faultless course, indicates France Bleu Alsace.
In 2016, he was even decorated by Bernard Cazeneuve, then Minister of the Interior, after the rescue of two children from a fire.
Haykal Rezgui Raouaji, police officer in Strasbourg for 2 years, files a complaint against the national police for racism, discrimination and moral harassment.
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- France Bleu Alsace (@bleualsace) September 19, 2020
But when the brigadier was transferred in September 2018 to Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin), everything changed.
“During the presentation week, I hear:
Rezgui Raouaji, a very French name from our region.
It was always little jokes, when I arrived they spoke Alsatian, we make you feel that you are not of the group ”, he says in the program“ There if I am there ”.
A report to IGPN classified without follow-up
“Little by little, it got worse,” explains the policeman.
In August 2019, he had a depression that lasted nine months.
"I was at the bottom of the hole, I lost almost 15 kg and nobody called me, nobody supported me…"
In October, he turned to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) of the region.
But his report is closed in March 2020, indicates France Bleu Alsace.
“I was told that there was not enough evidence to prove racism… There I almost fell in tears.
"
A union official told him that if he wanted to be transferred to Toulouse, he should not invoke the motive of racism but that of "poor integration".
"It's false, I feel very good in Alsace, it's just this service," he blurted out on local radio.
Captures of messages and testimonials
Me Kaoutar Choukour believes that the fight will be long.
"We attack the police institution, it happens very rarely, I already feel it, the way I am received at the central police station, it is unpleasant," she explains.
To defend her client, she relies on “capturing messages that leave no room for ambiguity”, as well as on testimonials from colleagues.
She asks "compensation for all the suffering endured and a passage of grade", reports France Bleu Alsace.
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This year, several surveys denounced racist behavior within the institution.
Streetpress thus revealed in June the existence of a Facebook group bringing together thousands of police and gendarmes and in which racist messages were published.
In Rouen, police officers were also implicated for racist remarks exchanged privately on the WhatsApp messaging.
