Over eight months of exchanges examined, “41 conversations” relaying racist remarks were recorded.
This Thursday, an investigation was opened for "non-public provocation to racial hatred" aimed at remarks made by Parisian police officers in a private discussion group on WhatsApp, revealed by the Streetpress site on Tuesday, the Paris prosecutor told Parisian , confirming information from AFP.
The investigation was entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN).
Comments of a racist or hateful nature there "are very much in the minority", specifies Streetpress, about this WhatsApp group which brings together 33 officials of the Bdep (Brigade of delegations and proximity surveys) of the 8th arrondissement of Paris.
In the exchanges noted by the site, "bad taste" of a racist nature, but also sexist insults including, on two occasions, about cases of violence against women that officials of the VIIIth arrondissement had to deal with .
An investigation for "moral harassment"
The feminist collective "We all" denounced this week on Twitter "serious facts" on the part of "people supposed to receive complaints from victims of violence" and who "must be punished".
"Upon learning of the facts Tuesday, the Paris police prefect made a report to the public prosecutor and seized the IGPN administratively," said the prefecture.
An investigation for “moral harassment” was also opened after the complaint of a black peacekeeper of 34 years, member of the brigade.
He says he was subjected to racist mockery from colleagues.
Even if it was on the "tone of the laughter", in the long run "it becomes a little heavy", he tells the site.
He also claims to have been “humiliated” by his superior.
This investigation was opened on September 14 and entrusted to the ethics department of the Paris police headquarters (SDSE), said the prosecution.
