Commissioner Rabah Souchi was sentenced on Friday to six months in prison by the Lyon criminal court which found him guilty of having ordered the charge which brought down Geneviève Legay in Nice, during a demonstration of "vests yellows” in 2019.
The commissioner was prosecuted for “complicity in violence by a person holding public authority”.
The court considered that the order to charge
“was neither justified, nor proportionate, nor necessary”
and followed the prosecution's requisitions during the trial on January 11 and 12.
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Number 2 of the Nice municipal police
On February 12, the former head of the public roads department at the national police joined the ranks of the Nice municipal police as deputy director.
The question now arises as to whether, in light of this conviction, the municipality of Christian Estrosi will keep the 54-year-old police officer in office.
The mayor of the Riviera city has not yet communicated.