The investigation opened after a police officer clubbed a young man in Asnières, in the Hauts-de-Seine in the fall of 2020, was closed for self-defense, said Friday, November 4 the Nanterre prosecution, requested by AFP.
This investigation was dismissed in February 2021, the prosecution believing that the policewoman had acted in self-defense against the then 21-year-old man.
The other investigation, that targeting the young man for rebellion and violence against a person holding public authority, was also closed.
The facts took place on November 12, 2020. In Asnières, a city of more than 85,000 inhabitants located northwest of Paris, a man had been beaten by a policewoman on duty, a scene filmed and widely relayed on social networks.
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The official intervened in the context of a nocturnal uproar, in a place "
known to harbor drug trafficking
", explained the prosecution at the time of the events.
The young man "
would have advanced towards the policewoman without removing his hands from his pockets despite the order of the latter, who would then have used his truncheon to neutralize
him", had also affirmed the prosecution at the start of the investigation.
His lawyer, Thomas Ramonatxo, had for his part maintained that his client was not linked to the nocturnal uproar for which the police officer was intervening, but that he was returning from the home of his girlfriend.
He had assured that his client had not had a threatening attitude.
The young man had filed a complaint a few days later, with the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), for "
violence with the use or threat of a weapon by a person holding public authority
".
Contacted on Friday, Me Ramonatxo did not wish to react.