Nancy: police officers tried for moral harassment and racist insults towards colleagues

Ten police officers from the night BAC (anti-crime brigade) of Nancy are on trial this Friday for acts of “

” and “

”, reports

.

The events lasted for several years and targeted colleagues, four of whom became civil parties.

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Quoted by our colleagues, the IGPN (General Inspectorate of the National Police) - which carried out an investigation at the request of the hierarchy and the public prosecutor - describes a clan functioning marked by xenophobic and misogynistic abuses with informal slogan : "

".

The IGPN also evokes "

" and staff "

".

A real "

ordeal

"

According to

, the facts were revealed in 2018 when Saïd B., arrived a year earlier, was undergoing an "

", in his words. Shocked by what was inflicted on him, one of his colleagues had disclosed screenshots from a private messaging system used by a small group of police officers from the night BAC in Nancy. In these exchanges, Saïd B. is treated as a

, a

or even a “

”. Saïd B. explains for his part to have been sidelined by a hard core of six police officers, who refused to speak to him, to shake his hand and even to work with him.

Another complainant indicates that this hard core had "

". These men challenged the authority of their own superior, questioning his orders and holding meetings without him. Until he cracked and got his eviction. A civil servant, a former high-level athlete and the service's first female recruit, also explains that she has lived through "

". "

" a sergeant regularly told him. She will eventually crack after four years of humiliation. The psychological damage to all the complainants - sleep disorders, depression - are still present years later, specifies

.