A policewoman from Val-d'Oise "
formally disputes
" the accusations of a young woman residing in Garges-lès-Gonesse who accuses her of having pushed her and of having caused her miscarriage, said Tuesday, January 19. lawyer, Me Thibault de Montbrial.
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The Pontoise public prosecutor's office opened an investigation at the beginning of January, entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), "
to determine precisely the circumstances of the arrest denounced by the young woman
", on December 10 in a shopping center in the city.
“
The policewoman formally disputes the accusations of the young woman.
She is sorry for the loss of the child but she is totally foreign to it,
”according to her lawyer.
"
She calmly awaits her hearing by the IGPN
", according to him.
"
I regret that personal dramas are exploited for militant purposes
," added Me de Montbrial.
During a press conference on Monday, the complainant Déborah and her lawyer, Me Vincent Brengarth announced that they had filed a new complaint with the constitution of civil party for "
violence by a person holding public authority resulting in permanent mutilation
", hoping to obtain the appointment of an investigating judge and new investigative acts.
On December 10 at the end of the afternoon, this 23-year-old young woman, four and a half months pregnant, is in a shopping center in the city accompanied by her 22-year-old cousin.
She says that a policewoman decided to issue them for failure to wear a mask.
Later, she “
caught
” her cousin in order to challenge her for “
contempt
”.
Then, she "
grabbed me by the arm, pushed me against the wall three times violently
", continues the young woman who says to have then repeated that she was pregnant.
Deborah also accuses the policewoman of having "
shaken
" her to ask her to apologize.
At the end of their police custody, the two women received a summons to court in July for contempt of a person holding public authority, according to a source close to the investigation.
"
During the night I started to feel pains
" which will turn out to be contractions, declares the young woman moved.
After several medical consultations and a temporary incapacity for work (ITT) of eight days, she was hospitalized urgently two days after the incident and gave birth on December 21 to a stillborn baby girl.
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