The Paris public prosecutor's office announced Friday, September 4, that it had opened an investigation after the publication of a book on Thursday in which a journalist infiltrated for two years in the Parisian police spoke of “
beatings
” committed by officials from the 19th arrondissement in Paris.
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The investigation, opened after a report from the Paris police headquarters, aims to "
identify
" in the book "
Flic
" (ed. Goutte d'Or) written by journalist Valentin Gendrot "
the facts likely to fall under the blow of a criminal qualification
”and was entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), the Paris prosecutor's office told AFP.
