The prosecution of Rouen on Thursday entrusted an investigation to the IGPN after the filing of a complaint by a city police officer, against six of his colleagues from the Administrative and Judicial Assistance Unit (UAAJ). Filed on December 23, this complaint alleges alleged facts of "racial insult", "incitement to hatred" and "defamation". An administrative investigation was also opened according to Paris Normandie, which reveals the facts.
Racist insults aimed at the police officer were allegedly exchanged during a WhatsApp discussion between a dozen peacekeepers and security assistants from his unit. Messages that the police officer discovered by chance, on a colleague's smartphone. "There is nothing to beat around the bush, these are racist and hateful remarks made towards this official," admitted a judicial source to the regional daily.
"Arab-negroid", "black whore" ...
"But that's not all," continues this source. "Other equally hateful messages, just as racist, homophobic, xenophobic, concern the people for whom these police officers are responsible for at the courthouse." These individuals for whom the police are responsible are the defendants, the accused, the detainees awaiting to be presented before the detention and liberty judges and those in police custody on the way to be brought before the prosecution or before the judges. 'instruction.
The remarks denounced? A "litany of words that cause nausea", pings the judicial source of Paris Normandie. "It is of the type: Arab-Negroid, a white woman who frequents a black sees himself qualified as a whore to a negro - an insult acronymized in PAN -, a black will never do as good a job as a white, whore with bougnoule ... ". Other "malicious considerations" have been held against magistrates, the newspaper said: "old skin", a magistrate would like "leather and boots", etc.
The alleged perpetrators summoned by the hierarchy
A matter taken very seriously by the police hierarchy. The complaint, received by a commissioner, was immediately forwarded to the prosecution. "We took the necessary measures as soon as we learned of these facts," said divisional commissioner Éric Maudier, deputy departmental director of public security (DDSP) for Seine-Maritime, said. "Immediately, we launched an administrative investigation to hear the main protagonists in this file".
The alleged perpetrators have been summoned for breaches of ethics. Without disputing the facts, some of them allegedly invoked humor. “According to the writings, it cannot be humor. And even so ... In this case, we are dealing with low-ceilinged individuals , indisputably racist, who have no place with us, "denounced a police source, still with Paris Normandy. “It's already complicated at the moment. We are wrongly accused of all evils, of violence ... With this type of morons, this is not going to help matters. The unjustifiable cannot be justified ”.