Schoolboy game that slips or hierarchical pressure behind closed doors, a police officer from the Anti-Crime Brigade (BAC) appeared on Tuesday February 1 before the court of Créteil for violence against subordinates including repeated blows of “taser”, this pulse gun electricity (PIE).
This former head of the BAC night of Boissy-saint-Léger (Val-de-Marne), aged 43, is being prosecuted for violence against two members of his team, including one with the use or threat of a weapon, followed in the two cases of incapacity for work of more than eight days.
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The facts were committed in February 2020 for one, between December 2019 and February 2020 for the other.
The weapon used is a PIE which, according to the use guide of the Ministry of the Interior, can constitute a
"graduated and proportionate response to a situation of danger"
.
It is not a lethal weapon, because the pistol is
“neither designed nor intended to kill”
, but it remains
“a weapon, the dangerousness of which should not be underestimated”
.
In this case, the PIE was used as
“a game”
between colleagues.
“The snap, it was surprising, we were happy.
It's a game which is not very clever, but which is practiced"
, explains the policeman at the helm, arguing that he was keen to maintain
the "esprit de corps"
of his unit, in particular by such
'hiccups'
.
"We liked the parodies of films"
, he also explains to justify the sentence
"I want to beat your face"
launched at the second victim.
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The prosecutor, for her part, mentioned the
“closed door”
of this unit and stressed that the defendant
“had a non-negligible union position”
and was
“the superior”
of the victims that it was a question
“of not getting on their backs »
.
"You can't hit, punch to the point of scoring. It cannot be a game and it should not be considered a game
,” said the prosecutor, emphasizing the incapacity for work of more than thirty days established for the two victims.
To punish these
"serious acts"
and recall
"the need for confidence"
in police officers, she requested a two-year suspended prison sentence, a five-year ban on the carrying of weapons subject to authorization and a ban definitively to exercise the profession of policeman.
The defendant has already been suspended for one month following an administrative investigation and the disciplinary council must rule on his fate.
