Two police officers taken to task by revelers, a young peacekeeper beaten up, a video of the scene which goes viral ... The criminal court of Créteil (Val-de-Marne) returns, Tuesday, on this December 31, 2017 where , in Champigny-sur-Marne, a crowded New Year's Eve has completely degenerated.
Several hundred people had gathered in a hangar when, under pressure from the crowd, a partition collapsed, causing panic.
As police attempted to disperse party attendees, a 25-year-old female peacekeeper was separated from her captain and assaulted.
The young woman was knocked to the ground and beaten up while her 48-year-old supervisor was punched in the face.
The scene, filmed and broadcast on social networks, had aroused outrage.
The Minister of the Interior at the time, Gérard Collomb, went to the Champigny police station on the evening of January 1, before receiving the police unions.
“Those guilty of the cowardly and criminal lynching of the police officers doing their duty on the night of December 31 will be found and punished.
Force will remain with the law, had warned for his part Emmanuel Macron.
Eight defendants aged 21 to 23
In total, seven men and a woman, aged 21 to 23, will be in the defendants' box from Tuesday and for three days.
Four of them will have to answer for acts of violence in assembly and on person depositary of the public authority.
Two others are being prosecuted for having filmed and then broadcast the video of the scene of violence and two others for failing to come to the aid of the police officer.
"My client is waiting to hear their explanations," said the lawyer for the peacekeeper, Me Ariane Mineur.
“She hopes for a decision that takes into account the fact that she was the victim of this violence completely gratuitously because she was wearing the uniform.
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For Me Clément Abitbol, who defends one of the eight defendants, "the whole difficulty will be to determine in support of a chaotic video who did what and who struck the blows knowing that some deny having committed violence" .
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Four minors are also being prosecuted in this case and will be tried later in the children's court: three for the violence and one for failing to come to the aid of a person in danger and for broadcasting the video of the scene of violence.
The evening should also never have taken place because the room where it took place was not authorized to receive the public.
The town hall of Champigny-sur-Marne is a civil party in this case.