He would have knocked down a young watchman, before rolling on his legs, then lying about the facts: two years in prison, including one firm, were required on Tuesday against a policeman, ex-head of the Douai BAC, tried in correctional .
The Douai court reserved its judgment on February 8.
The defendant, a police officer for 24 years and described as a
“hunter”
by colleagues in the PVs, was head of one of the two units of the BAC in Douai.
He was suspended in October following the facts.
He was the one driving the vehicle.
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The three other police officers involved, passengers, are not being prosecuted, but will be subject to a reminder to law shortly.
"Where is the truth ?"
, asked in echo the president and the lawyers during the hearing on Tuesday, as the versions of the police diverge on the course of the intervention of last September 12 in Dorignies, a district known for its drug trafficking.
The victim, 17, admitting in court that he was then a
"lookout"
for traffickers, and himself a drug user, says he fled when he saw a Ford station wagon arrive, known to be a BAC vehicle .
At the end of a pursuit, after a collision with the car, driven by the defendant, he suffered lesions on his legs and a broken foot, which earned him six weeks of ITT.
“They rolled over me
,” he describes.
In their reports, the police assured that the young man had
"jumped on the hood".
Said he fled, electrified by fear – all the more easily as the police officers, however experienced, were inconvenienced by tear gas they had fired while trying to arrest him, according to witnesses.
The three police passengers assured in their first reports that the suspect, unharmed, had fled on a bicycle, omitting the tear gas shot.
Before recognizing it.
"Will of Concealment"
The vagueness about the exact circumstances of the collision was not completely dispelled at the hearing. The defendant reiterated that it was the young man who threw himself on the car.
"Will of dissimulation, there was"
, was moved the prosecutor of Douai, Frédéric Fourtoy. This brigadier-chief, prosecuted for aggravated willful violence,
“is not an ordinary defendant”
, he underlined:
“The duty of a police officer is not to lie, nor to conceal, even by omission. »
The trial
"raises the question of the loyalty expected of the police services with regard to (...) justice"
, he added.
He requested two years in prison, one of which was suspended, as well as a suspension from the police and a ban on carrying weapons for two years. By putting his vehicle across the young man's road, the policeman
"wanted to block his progress"
, retorted defense lawyer Emmanuel Riglaire, evoking a
"most classic intervention technique".
“What evidence do you have that we mention?”
, he hammered, underlining the few material elements attesting that the young person was injured by the shock and the inaccuracies of the latter on the way in which the vehicle struck him - reverse in the depositions, forward at the hearing.
If the victim's family had not initially lodged a complaint, the defense finally asked for damages, with a provision of 2,000 euros and 1,500 euros in legal costs.
