An investigation for voluntary violence was opened by the "police police" after the complaint of a teacher, accusing two police officers of having assaulted her in Villetaneuse (Seine-Saint-Denis) on June 30 in a context of urban violence, AFP learned Wednesday from her lawyer and the Bobigny prosecutor's office.
Shortly before 3am, this school teacher was cycling home after a night out with friends when she stopped in the town hall square where a truck was set on fire.
Insults to agents
Two police officers walked towards her, ordering her to leave the premises, she testified to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), according to the minutes of her complaint consulted by AFP. The 51-year-old teacher was then pushed to the ground by one of the officers and then handcuffed.
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I am on the ground, I have a weight on my back and I have pain, pain, pain in the leg, "testified the fifty-year-old in her complaint. Transported to the hospital, she was operated on for a fractured tibia and fibula, injuries resulting in 45 days of ITT (total interruption of work), according to the complaint. "She suffered violence on the ground by the two policemen," her lawyer Arié Alimi told AFP. "Other police officers then intervened to stop the violence," he added, deploring "an action of absolute savagery". An investigation for intentional violence by a person holding public authority was opened by the IGPN, confirmed the Bobigny prosecutor's office.
According to the police version, during a verbal altercation, the teacher would have shouted insults to the officers and it is in the context of her arrest, struggling, that she would have fallen from her bike, reported a source close to the case. The CGT union Educ'action 93, of which the professor is a member, denounced "this unbearable violence" (...) symptoms of police impunity, ultra-aggressive behavior towards the population, especially that of working-class neighborhoods.
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