A policewoman from Roubaix (Nord) tried in Lille for having fired a taser at a colleague driving a vehicle, causing an accident, while they were returning from a severance, was found guilty on Wednesday March 9 but freed from punishment.
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The presiding judge noted that the owner of the car hit had not filed a complaint and recalled that the policewoman was considered a "
driving force
" by her superiors.
“
It is regrettable to say the least that such a well-evaluated police officer (…) could let himself go in this way
”, he however insisted, underlining the “
necessary exemplary behavior
” on the part of the policemen.
“It was a game between us”
The 35-year-old brigadier was convicted of assault with a weapon and endangering the lives of others, but her conviction will not appear on bulletin number 2 of her criminal record.
The prosecution had requested against the young woman, also a reservist gendarme, a 10-month suspended prison sentence, a fine of 2,000 euros, a ban on carrying a weapon for 18 months and on exercising her profession for six months.
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On August 28 around 1 a.m., a five-seater police vehicle, but in which there were six uniformed police officers from the Roubaix police station, one of whom was in the trunk, had struck a parked vehicle in Tourcoing.
The police then left the scene without leaving any contact details.
Among these six police officers, who were returning from a farewell party at the Tourcoing police station and returning to that of Roubaix, a sergeant had triggered her taser four times to "
laugh
" in the direction of the police officer at the wheel, causing the accident.
Prosecuted for "
violence with the use or threat of a weapon without incapacitation
" and "
endangering others by manifestly deliberate violation of a regulatory obligation of safety or prudence
", she explained at the hearing that she had "
played with
» the taser.
“
The police major never gave me the order to stop, it made everyone laugh.
It was a game between us
”, she had assured, claiming to “
regret
” her gesture and “
love
” her job.
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The court on Tuesday acquitted the driver of the vehicle and the police major, prosecuted respectively for hit-and-run and complicity in the hit-and-run, considering that the offenses were not characterized.
The police major, who made the decision to return to the police station while warning the Tourcoing police station after the accident, had claimed to have been "
overwhelmed by events
".