“I feel an injustice, I lost my life, I want justice for my daughter!
»Debora, a 23-year-old resident of Garges-lès-Gonesse (Val-d'Oise), lodged a complaint for alleged police violence on December 10, when she was four and a half months pregnant with her first child. child.
According to her, these could be the cause of the loss of her baby, ten days later.
Supported by Me Vincent Brengarth, the lawyer who notably defended the family of Cédric Chouviat or the Islamic NGO BarakaCity, she held a press conference in Paris on Monday.
In parallel with the judicial investigation carried out by the Pontoise public prosecutor's office, which refused any comment on Monday, an administrative investigation was opened following the report on the new platform of the General Inspectorate of the Police national (IGPN).
"She pushed me against the wall three times violently"
That day, the mother-to-be goes to the Arc-en-Ciel shopping center in Garges-lès-Gonesse to go find food with Céline, her 22-year-old cousin, and a friend.
At 5:30 p.m., when they are heading for the exit, they meet two policemen.
The first asks them to put on their masks - which they would have agreed to do - while a policewoman gives them verbal information.
According to Debora, the latter would have believed herself insulted.
“We were in private conversation with my cousin and my friend when she came running back to us.
She grabbed my cousin's wrist saying:
Outrage to agent, I'm taking you
.
We didn't agree because we hadn't done anything.
"
“She tackled my cousin to the ground, they came to several on her, continues the young woman timidly.
I panicked, several policemen gently pushed me so as not to go to my cousin.
This same policewoman grabbed me by the arm, pushed me against the wall three times violently.
His colleague intervened.
"
She relates a second episode of violence.
“The policewoman came back to me, grabbed me by the arm and pulled me out and, shaking me, asked me to apologize.
I said it didn't have to be.
"Debora swears to have proclaimed throughout the operation that she was pregnant:" It was visible.
My cousin and my friend also told the police several times.
"
Debora (center) was hospitalized two days after the shopping center incident.
LP / Julie Olagnol
Policewoman's complaint for contempt
The girls are then handcuffed and taken into custody.
Debora leaves at 9:30 p.m. with a summons to court for July 6.
It was confirmed to us on Monday that the policewoman in question had filed a complaint against Debora and her cousin for "insulting a person responsible for the police".
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During the night, Debora feels pain in her stomach.
In the morning, she consults her GP then goes to the gynecological emergency room at the Sarcelles clinic.
The contractions resume and she goes back to the Blanc-Mesnil (Seine-Saint-Denis) emergency room the following night, where she will be hospitalized for ten days.
Her collar opened, the pocket with the fetus slipped.
It is finally on December 21 that Debora gives birth to a dead baby girl born whom she names Djamila.
“I was doing really well before all that.
I had seen my gynecologist a week before, my cervix was very well closed.
At the hospital, they also noticed that I had a bruise on my back.
The doctors made it clear to me that it was linked, ”she says.
According to his lawyer, 8 days of ITT delivered to the hospital
Several witnesses would have filmed the scene and the lawyer is also counting on the exploitation of the images of the surveillance cameras of the shopping center.
The Blanc-Mesnil hospital "gives him the next day a certificate of total temporary incapacity (ITT) for 8 days with a foreseeable duration of care of 15 days", points out Me Vincent Brengarth.
"If we put the medical elements, the testimonies and this chronology in parallel, there is more than a suspicion, there is a presumption of causality between the intervention of the police and the loss of the baby who is manifest.
And this especially since it had been more than 4 months that she was pregnant.
The contrast is striking between the findings of the gynecologist a few days before and the findings a few days after, ”said his lawyer.
Debora had filed, alone at first, a first complaint for "violence by a person holding public authority" on December 23, two days after the death of her baby.
She will also give an interview on Instagram to Cergy activist Shahin Hazamy to denounce her situation.
Expected autopsy results
With Me Vincent Brengarth, she lodged a second complaint with civil proceedings last week for "violence by a person holding public authority resulting in permanent mutilation" which, this time, takes into account the loss of the fetus.
They are now waiting for the appointment of an investigating judge to conduct the investigations, especially medical.
“It will be necessary that this presumption can be concretized in an irrebuttable way by the medical elements which we will have in the file.
To my knowledge, this is the first time that we are confronted with a case of police violence likely to have resulted in the death of a child, ”adds the council.
The results of the autopsy of the small body are also awaited by the mother.
"For more than a year, we have been going through a health crisis which imports new behaviors that are not natural such as wearing a mask and this must require a discernment of the police", concludes the lawyer.
