Four new police officers from the Seine-Saint-Denis Security and Intervention Company (CSI), a controversial unit targeted by around fifteen investigations for theft and violence in particular, were heard on Wednesday in police custody, said Thursday. corroborating sources.
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Four police officers were taken into custody yesterday on charges of theft by a person holding public authority.
Their custody has been lifted, the procedure must be sent to the prosecutor's office for study,
”said the Bobigny prosecutor's office.
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According to a source close to the investigation, these officials are accused of having stolen “
Airpods
”
headphones
during an identity check.
The alleged victim had made a report on the platform of the IGPN (General Inspectorate of the National Police), leading to the opening of a judicial investigation.
The CSI 93, whose 150 members are based in Aulnay-sous-Bois, has been at the heart of a vast scandal since the summer of 2020: it has been the target of around fifteen investigations for theft, violence, drug possession and forgery. in public writing.
About twenty officials are implicated.
In a testimony recently collected by AFP, two members of this unit had recognized abuses - money stolen from dealers, "
slaps
" by way of hello, seals of diverted drugs - which they attribute "
to the demand for results of the hierarchy
”.
This succession of investigations and the indictment of four police officers last July had forced the Paris police prefect, Didier Lallement, to announce the dissolution of the CSI of Seine-Saint-Denis, finally reorganized and placed under the authority. of the CSI of Paris.
A police officer from this company was also to be tried on November 5 for violence by a person holding public authority and forgery in public writing.
The facts dated back to August 2019, when a 20-year-old young man was violently arrested in Saint-Ouen.
The Bobigny correctional court declared itself incompetent, considering that the alleged facts of forgery in public writing fell within the jurisdiction of an assize court.
The images, captured by surveillance cameras in the city and an amateur video, showed a plainclothes policeman inflicting several blows in the face of the young man arrested, according to a source close to the investigation.
