The trial of a young man accused of beating police officers during the demonstration on November 28 in Paris against the proposed comprehensive security law has been postponed until January 25, AFP has learned.
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Arrested Thursday, December 17 in Cachan (Val-de-Marne), this 31-year-old man is suspected of having participated in clashes with the police at the Place de la Bastille at the end of this demonstration which had been marked by violent clashes.
In particular, a fallen police officer was beaten by several people, before being relieved by one of his colleagues.
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The suspect had been arrested in a former gendarmerie barracks occupied by the Extinction Rebellion movement and placed in police custody for “
willful violence against persons holding public authority
”.
"
We are not on an average individual
"
"
I am portrayed as a violent individual, a cop thief, while this is far from being the case,"
he said in particular during this immediate appearance hearing, after asking for his trial to be postponed for better prepare your defense.
Three police officers wounded on November 28 at the Place de la Bastille were present at the Paris court.
"The entire institution is shocked by an ultra-violent attack
,
"
said their lawyer, Jérôme Andrei.
"We are not on an average individual
,
"
said the prosecutor for her part, detailing
"facts that unfold over an entire afternoon"
.
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Matteo Bonaglia, defense lawyer, denounced him
"a more than criticizable procedure"
and the
"political" nature
of the prosecutions, also questioning the methods of identification of his client by the police.
According to a source close to the case, the investigators relied in particular on the many videos that circulated on social networks to identify the suspect.
In total throughout France, 98 police and gendarmes were injured on the sidelines of this mobilization of November 28, which had brought together tens of thousands of participants in France against a text deemed
"liberticidal"
.
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