A policeman, former head of an anti-crime brigade (Bac), was sentenced on Tuesday March 15 to twelve months in prison suspended by the court of Créteil for violence against subordinates including repeated blows of a "
taser
", this electric pulse gun.
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This former head of the Night Bac of Boissy-saint-Léger (Val-de-Marne), aged 43, was prosecuted for violence against two members of his team, including one with the use or threat of a weapon, followed for one of an incapacity for work of more than eight days.
The facts were committed in February 2020 for one, between December 2019 and February 2020 for the other.
At the helm on February 1, the defendant had assured that it was a "
dumb game
" accepted by everyone in the team.
“
The snap, it was surprising, we were happy.
It's a game that is not very clever, but which is practiced
, "explained the policeman at the helm, arguing that he was keen to maintain
the" esprit de corps
"of his unit,
The prosecutor had objected that her union position could explain the lack of reprobation on the part of her subordinates, and in particular on the part of one of the victims presented as "
a scapegoat
".
She had underlined the ambivalence of these practices and demanded a two-year suspended prison sentence, a five-year ban on carrying weapons subject to authorization and a permanent ban on exercising the profession of police officer.
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On Tuesday, the court was less severe.
He convicted the former head of the Bac nuit and sentenced him to twelve months in prison, suspended, without pronouncing a ban on exercising against him.
The conviction was entered in his criminal record.
The police officer has already been suspended for a month following an administrative investigation and the disciplinary council has yet to decide on his fate.