Three years and 18 months in prison have been required against two police officers tried on Tuesday in appeal in Aix-en-Provence for the illegal and violent arrest of an Afghan refugee in Marseille, who claims to have been beaten.
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A three-year suspended prison sentence was also required against the third member of this highway CRS crew, a young woman, security assistant. Requests similar to his conviction at first instance.
CCTV cameras had filmed the muscular arrest of Jamshed, a 27-year-old Afghan, carrying a residence permit, on April 12 on the Old Port of Marseille. Following this, the young refugee had been abandoned 30 km further in a vacant lot where he claims to have been hit. " I was afraid of losing my life there ," Jamshed said on Tuesday with the help of an interpreter, accusing one of the police officers of having kicked and kicked him .
“'' Mechanical orange '' in uniform ”
The Advocate General, denouncing an " arbitrary arrest " for the purpose of " private justice " and referring to a "" mechanical Orange "in uniform ", asked for sentences almost equivalent to the sentences in first instance for kidnapping and forcible confinement , forgery and willful violence against the two police officers, present in the box and never condemned before.
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Tried in immediate appearance in early May in Marseille, they were sentenced to four years and 18 months respectively in prison, imprisoned after the pronouncement of the sentence. On April 12, the police, who operated under containment control, intervened after passers-by assured that the young man had spit on them when they refused to give him a cigarette. It had been thrown against the police vehicle after an arm key, then placed inside.
According to the security assistant who carried out the handcuffing, the skipper, Brigadier Michel Provenzano, 46, " got angry from there ". Officials mention fingers of honor and invective. The young man was then transported to an isolated site in Châteauneuf-les-Martigues, about thirty kilometers from Marseille.
On the spot, Michel Provenzano, evoking a " tunnel effect ", deposits in the empty pocket his sunglasses and his service weapon " because I have idea to fight ", he declared Tuesday at the court of 'call. Behind a hillock, the young Afghan would then have received at least " a slap ", according to the driver, Mathieu Coelho, who heard " cries from both sides ". The two police officers also wrote a false report indicating that they left the young refugee at the police station.