Gérald Darmanin estimated on Wednesday February 16 that the police officer who called
a woman who had filed a complaint for sexual assault a "
whore " had "no
longer his place
" within the national police.
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"
This police officer not only soiled all the women who try to file a complaint (...) but he soiled, he spat on the uniform of the Republic of his 250,000 other police and gendarme colleagues
", declared the Minister of the Interior on Europe 1. "
I think that this gentleman no longer has a place in the national police
", added Gérald Darmanin, specifying that he is "
not the only one to decide because there are legal remedies
".
The prefect of police Didier Lallement, condemning "
inadmissible remarks
", announced Tuesday that he had seized the "
police of police
" (IGPN) of an administrative investigation and requested the suspension of the police officer as a precaution.
According to a recording posted online by Mediapart, the police officer mistakenly left a message on the complainant's answering machine in which he insulted her, calling her in particular a "
big whore
" or "
dirty whore
" on several occasions.
The 34-year-old young woman had filed a complaint on the night of February 4 to 5 with police officers from the police station of the 5th and 6th arrondissements of Paris for "
sexual assault while intoxicated
", indicated Mediapart.
A police officer from this police station had called her back at midday and had left her a voice message asking her to come and complete her complaint.
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Believing to have hung up, we hear the official joking with one of his colleagues: “
I will call her back anyway because she must be sleeping off!
Then reading aloud an excerpt from the young woman's complaint, he added: "
It doesn't actually make sense, the complaint
."
"
Ah obviously she refuses confrontation
," he said then.
“
She really is a whore.
(...) Damn, she refuses the confrontation in addition to the whore.
As if by chance.
In fact it was just to break his balls, I'm sure.
(…) Whore, big whore
”, he concludes, before the handset is well hung up.