A young man who accuses the police of " aggravated violence " during a check related to confinement in Ulis (Essonne) complained to the prosecution in Evry on Friday, we learned from the young man's lawyer .
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The complaint against X, which AFP was able to consult, was notably filed for “ intentional violence aggravated by a person holding public authority, in a meeting, with use or threat of a weapon ” and “ non-assistance to anyone in danger ”. Monday late afternoon, Sofiane, logistics agent at Amazon and resident of Ulis, went from his father's home to that of his mother before going to his night work, according to the account of the latter.
“ The mistake he had was to run away when he saw the police. He explained that he did this because he was afraid of being beaten up and that, moreover, he did not have his certificate with him, ”said his mother Aïcha to AFP. The sequence of events appears in videos massively shared on social networks. The young man, surrounded by several agents from the anti-crime brigade, was knocked down and beaten multiple times, then brought under the porch of a building from which his shrill cries escaped.
Four days of ITT
Samim Bolaky, the plaintiff's lawyer, stressed the " post-traumatic stress " suffered by his client, noting the " extremely serious nature " of this violence, " especially in this period of health crisis ". “ The police violence we are talking about is institutional and it is something extremely frightening. (...) We are in neighborhoods where perfectly honest people live in fear of running into the police, "he said.
Me Bolaky also requested the opening of an investigation at the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN, the police force). " Why are we isolating him to continue the massacre?" His mother indignant, still in shock. "I do not recognize my son, he is slaughtered, absent, " she confides in a sob, describing him as being usually " very sensitive ". The young man, injured in the face and with numerous bruises on the body, was prescribed four days of ITT, according to a medical certificate that AFP was able to consult.
Department police declined to comment. According to Amal Bentounsi, of the Urgence collective, our police murder, " since the beginning of confinement, we have witnessed an upsurge in police violence and a relentlessness and anger on the populations living in the suburbs ". For her, " nothing justifies this violence ".
