Marseille: the IGPN opens an investigation after a complaint of police violence on the sidelines of a demonstration. According to the complainant, who suffers from a fracture of the orbital floor, the plainclothes police officer who punched him was uttering insults.
The Marseille prosecutor's office indicated that it had opened "an investigation into the counts of violence by a person holding public authority entrusted to theIGPN" The complainant's eye came out of its socket and he risks losing his sight, his lawyer said.