The public prosecutor requested Thursday, November 4 at the Bobigny court four months suspended prison sentence against the police officer who had uttered racist insults during the arrest of an Egyptian in April 2020 by declaring that
"a bicot like that, that do not swim ”
.
"A police officer has a duty to set an example"
, argued prosecutor Loïc Pageot, who also demanded a fine of 1,000 euros.
Against the six other police officers prosecuted for violence at the direct summons of the civil party, the public prosecutor did not request a conviction, for lack of formal proof.
“Nobody saw what happened,”
he noted.
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On April 26, 2020 at around 1:30 a.m., police officers arrested on Île Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) an Egyptian national suspected of theft of equipment on a construction site and who had tried, according to police sources, to flee by jumping into the Seine. On the facts of theft, the case was dismissed. After taking the young man out of the river, one of the police officers declared:
"A bicot like that does not swim
,
"
according to a video captured by a local resident and posted by journalist Taha Bouhafs on social networks.
“Ha! ha! It's leaking, you should have hooked a ball to its foot, ”
we could also hear.
“I was going to die,”
explained Samir Elgendy at the helm, assisted by an interpreter.
The latter explained that he had come out
“alone from the water”
.
Once on the bank,
"they all hit me
,
"
hammered the young man.
The violence continued
"in the van"
and
"all the way to the police station,"
said the 29-year-old construction worker.
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It is
"a joke of bad taste"
, defended the police officer who used the term
"bicot"
.
"I needed to decompress and make the gallery laugh
,
"
said the 26-year-old policeman, who is part of the night staff of the Territorial Directorate of Public Security in Hauts-de-Seine.
Four anti-racist associations (Licra, MRAP, LDH, SOS Racisme) have become civil parties in this case.
The seven police officers prosecuted, aged between 26 and 35, all refuted violence against Samir Elgendy.
Two of the police officers were administratively sanctioned in October with five days of firm exclusion.