According to information from France Info, confirmed to AFP by a source close to the investigation, three police officers from the Ile-de-France region were indicted in June for "willful violence by persons holding public authority" on a young person. 19 year old male.
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The case has its source in the control of a gang of young people in Cormeilles-en-Parisis (Val-d'Oise) on January 29 in the afternoon.
On seeing the five policemen, a young man of 19 fled.
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The police caught up with him and discovered in his cell phone a photo of a member of the Argenteuil anti-crime brigade (BAC) in makeup, wearing leather shorts and fishnet stockings.
According to the young man, it is this cliché that would have started everything.
A policeman confirms
The young man claims to have been punched, tasered and threatened for long minutes by three officers.
“I really thought I was going to die,” he
told France Info.
The young man and his mother file a complaint, triggering the opening of an investigation.
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The latter reveals in particular that the Taser of the head of the brigade was used nearly thirty times in ten minutes at the time of the control in Cormeilles-en-Parisis.
One of the police officers present on January 29 also confirms having witnessed beatings.
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The three police officers, who deny any disproportionate use of violence according to France Info, were indicted and placed under judicial supervision.
One of them, the head of the brigade, would also have been suspended from his duties, add our colleagues.
Contacted, neither the prosecutor of Val-d'Oise, nor the lawyer of the young man responded to the solicitations of
Figaro
.