Alpes-Maritimes policeman suspected of being the source of a Mediapart journalist in the case of violence against Geneviève Legay, a 73-year-old protester in Nice in 2019, has been suspended, according to the national police .
This police officer from the Departmental Public Security Directorate (DDSP) was suspended for breaches of the professional secrecy, in connection with the Mediapart revelations, said a source of the national police, confirming information from the media in line and Nice-Morning.
On March 23, 2019, Geneviève Legay, 73, activist for Attac and many other causes, was seriously injured during a police charge during a prohibited demonstration in a square in Nice, in support of the Yellow Vests, at the eve of a visit from the Chinese president.
The Nice prosecutor had initially denied any physical "contact" on the part of the police, comments taken up by Emmanuel Macron. Then the magistrate recognized that she had been pushed by a police officer, following the exploitation of video surveillance images.
The prosecutor has since been transferred to the Lyon Court of Appeal at the end of 2019. And the investigation into the violence, in which a police officer on the ground was charged, was also disoriented in Lyon where Geneviève Legay, convalescent, has been heard.
Geneviève Legay's lawyers have still not been able to access the file
His lawyers requested that the investigation go up the entire chain of command, but were unable to access the file immediately. "We are in the dark, the Lyon investigating judge does not respond to our requests, which is illegal," said Me Arie Alimi on Friday.
The journalist from Mediapart who investigated the case, on the other hand, was summoned four times in 18 months by the IGPN to answer questions from the police concerning their sources.
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"The purpose of this maneuver is to give the police full latitude to search for the main perpetrator of the crime of which we would be the stoppers, that is to say our sources," deplored in early May the journalist Pascale Pascariello, denouncing " a climate of pressure on our profession and of intimidation towards our sources ”.
