Posted online, the video of the events sparked outrage.
A police officer implicated during the arrest of a man on Île-Saint-Denis, in April, is referred to justice for racist insults, we learned on Wednesday, confirming information relayed on Twitter by journalist Taha Bouhafs.
The official, who is part of the night staff of the Territorial Directorate of Public Security of Hauts-de-Seine, will appear on March 4, 2021 before the Bobigny Criminal Court (Seine-Saint-Denis).
On April 26, around 1:30 a.m., police officers arrested in Île-Saint-Denis a man suspected of theft of equipment on a construction site who had tried to flee by throwing himself into the Seine, according to police sources.
VIDEO. IGPN seized after racist remarks made by police officers
"A bicot like that, it does not swim", we heard then in a video posted on Twitter by the journalist of the online media Over there if I am, Taha Bouhafs, visibly filmed while the officials had released the man of the river.
“Ha!
ha!
It's leaking, you should have hooked a ball to its foot, ”we still hear.
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Other recordings broadcast on Twitter reported the laughter of the police and deaf noises from the van in which the arrested, a 27-year-old Egyptian, seemed to cry out.
An investigation for racist insults and violence by a person holding public authority had been opened and entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN).
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The Paris police prefect had requested the suspension of two police officers involved, who had admitted to being the authors of the comments.
"We are satisfied with the prosecution for insults of a racist nature," reacts the lawyer of the man arrested, Me Arié Alimi.
He nevertheless wanted to “have the other police officers summoned for violence in a meeting by a person holding public authority”.
“This pursuit could never have taken place without the video” and with “the new comprehensive security law” currently under debate in parliament, he underlines.
The deputies began Wednesday the examination in committee of a bill LREM-Act on the "global security" of which certain provisions, like the penalization of the malicious use of the image of the police force, arouse the controversial.
