"I found it violent, […] nothing explains such strong words", sums up Léa, outraged by the scene she saw from her balcony.
In her 40-second video posted on Twitter, the young woman shows two police officers arresting a man, while one of them begins to utter homophobic insults.
"Little PD" he repeats several times, before adding sexual and physical threats.
"Stop hitting me", "Stop insulting my mother (mom)," replied the young man, before he was pushed a little further to be handcuffed.
Called for nighttime noise around 10 p.m. in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, La Chapelle sector, the police intervened to put an end to the shooting of a rap clip in an apartment in the neighborhood.
According to statements from police sources to France Info, members of the security forces found around fifteen people with a hostile attitude.
The agents would then have arrested one of them, after the latter fled.
It is in this context that the images where we see a police officer insulting the arrested person are taken.
“What shocked me were the words said with inexplicable hatred,” says Léa, who observes the scene a few meters above.
Despite "the presence of people in the street", direct witnesses of the control, the young woman ensures that "the behavior of the police" has not changed.
The Mousse and Stop Homophobie associations, which defend the rights of LGBT people, have filed a complaint.
For its part, the Paris prosecutor's office indicates that it “opened an investigation into the head of public insult of a homophobic nature”, and entrusted the investigations to the IGPN.