The recording had caused a stir.
The revelation of a violent exchange between police and people arrested on the sidelines of a demonstration against the pension reform had triggered an investigation by the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN).
This Tuesday, the police force proposed to refer three Brav-M police officers to the disciplinary council and to sanction four others with a warning for having failed in their duties at the end of March in Paris, according to sources familiar with the matter. .
The civil servants were accused of one or more breaches, including the duty to set an example, the obligation of courtesy towards the public, damage to the credit of the national police and the duty to protect the person arrested, detailed these sources on Tuesday.
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These conclusions of the administrative investigation of the IGPN are not a surprise, its boss Agnès Thibault-Lecuivre had announced that its services were going to "propose sanctions".
The decision in the hands of Laurent Nuñez
At the end of March, a few days after the revelation by several media of a recording of threats and humiliating remarks by the police, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin had affirmed that there would “obviously” be sanctions against the police.
It is now up to the prefect of police Laurent Nuñez, who declared Tuesday evening on BFMTV not to have yet received these recommendations, to decide, either by validating them, or by revising them upwards or downwards.
The warning is a disciplinary sanction of the first group, the lowest in the public service, and is not the subject of any mention in the file of the agent.
In the event of referral to a disciplinary board, the police potentially incur heavier penalties, from temporary exclusion for one day to dismissal, which is much rarer.
"Physical and moral fatigue"
"It's a start," reacted to Agence France-Presse Arié Alimi, lawyer for two young people arrested.
“We are now awaiting the legal follow-up to the complaints of sexual assault, violence and racist insults, as well as for violation of individual freedoms,” he added.
On the night of March 20 to 21, members of the Brav-M (Brigade for the repression of violent motorized actions) arrested seven young demonstrators, suspected of having taken part in degradations in a wild procession in the center of Paris.
One of the arrested had then discreetly recorded the exchanges with the police.
"The next time we come, you won't get on the bus to go to the police station, you'll get on another thing called an ambulance to go to the hospital", threatens a police officer in particular towards a Chadian student, Souleyman Adoum Souleyman, particularly targeted by officials in the recording.
Today, "Souleyman is determined to assert his rights and fully exercise his right to demonstrate," commented his lawyer, Me Alimi.
In reports to their hierarchy of Brav-M agents who intervened on the evening of the facts, obtained by Agence France-Presse, they had pleaded "physical and moral fatigue".
A brigadier had thus described “shifts of 14 hours, even 16 hours” during which, he said, “our basic and vital needs were not respected, hydrating and eating were very complicated”.
A judicial investigation, also entrusted to the IGPN, is still underway in this case.
