Two police officers were sanctioned with five days of firm exclusion following the arrest of an Egyptian in April 2020 at Île Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) during which one of them had declared that "
a bicot like that, it does not swim
," announced Thursday the Paris police headquarters (PP).
The Director General of the National Police, Frédéric Veaux, who accompanied this sanction of 10 days of temporary suspension of postponement, went beyond the recommendations of the disciplinary board of the PP which, in December 2020, had proposed three days of exclusion.
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Lawyers, including that of the respondent, Me Arié Alimi, had denounced the weakness of this recommendation.
"
When there are racist remarks, if there is no dismissal, it is because the State promotes racism in the police,
" said the criminal, adding that his client had suffered violence during his questioning.
The case revealed by Taha Bouhafs
On April 26, 2020, around 1:30 a.m., police officers arrested on Île Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), a man suspected of theft of equipment on a construction site and who had tried, according to police sources, to take flight by throwing oneself into the Seine.
"
A bicot like that, it does not swim
," said one of the police officers according to a video sent by a resident to the journalist Taha Bouhafs.
The scene was obviously filmed after officials pulled the man out of the river.
“
Ha!
Ha!
it's leaking, you should have hung a ball on its foot,
”we could also hear.
Trial November 4
The two police officers had been suspended for eight months - a precautionary measure that does not correspond to a sanction - then reinstated in December 2020 at their police station.
For these facts, one of them, who is part of the night staff of the Territorial Directorate of Public Security of Hauts-de-Seine, will have to answer for racist insults before the Bobigny Criminal Court on November 4.
