Two police officers were sentenced on Wednesday June 22 in Paris to a three-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of 9,000 euros for having published racist messages in 2020 in a Facebook group called "
TN Rabiot Official Police
", with some 8,000 members.
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The Paris prosecutor's office had summoned Patrick C. and Fabrice DP, a brigadier and a peacekeeper, formerly members of the Facebook group "
TN Rabiot Official Police
" whose existence had been revealed by the news site, to appear on April 20.
Street press.
The first, Patrick C., a 44-year-old brigadier, was criticized for this comment: "
This country has really become the world's trash can... Really full of ass, and one wonders why the French no longer support immigration.
"
It continues to come in through all the holes
," he added, referring to "
immigration that is neither chosen, nor qualified, nor anything at all
".
"public racial slur"
The 17th chamber of the criminal court sentenced him for "
public insult of a racial nature
" to 3 months suspended imprisonment, without mentioning the criminal record, following the requisitions of the prosecution.
Patrick C. will also have to pay 1 euro in damages to the three anti-racist associations (Licra, Maison des potes, SOS Racisme) which had joined as civil parties.
At the hearing, this policeman stationed in the Southwest and without a lawyer had conceded an “
emotional
” reaction to the attack in Romans-sur-Isère in April 2020.
The other defendant, Fabrice DP, a 51-year-old peacekeeper on police leave, had not appeared at the hearing: he still appeared on Instagram in recent days as working in a club on an island in the Gulf. from Thailand.
He had been tried for having written “
Always the same shit that defies all the taboos in this country.
The smelly ''lefties'' and the immigrants who don't even make 1/10th of a quarter of that at home.
Like Trump!
He said lead!
The prosecutor had requested a "
more severe sanction
" for him, a fine of 9000 euros to be paid within 90 days for the second.
The court followed his submissions and condemned him for "
public insult of a racial nature
" but also for "
public provocation to discrimination
”.
Fabrice DP was also ordered to pay 250 euros to the civil parties.
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The Minister of the Interior at the time, Christophe Castaner, had reported this group to justice in the face of "
hundreds
" of racist, sexist and homophobic messages, as well as calls for murder.
Two other police officers heard during the investigation had not been summoned to appear, while two other members of the group, targeted by the prosecution, could not be identified.