Investigation opened after complaint from journalist Rémy Buisine, accusing police officers of violence. The Brut journalist claimed to have received blows from two police officers during a demonstration on May 1, 2023 in Paris.
“One policeman turns away to hit me in the shoulder with a baton, a second immediately kicks me in. the head,” said the journalist. The investigation was recently closed for insufficiently characterized offenses, said the prosecution, requested by AFP. The police officer's line manager proposed "a simple reminder of the rule given the extreme intervention conditions"