Less than a month after one of his colleagues, who had invented a confession of rape in a criminal case, a police officer from Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique) was again tried for "false" this Tuesday, April 27, 2021 He had attested to the existence of a "rebellion" in a handrail to justify the illegal arrest of a scooter rider who had had a benign collision with a police car. The facts took place on August 29, 2019, around 9 pm: this young Syrian was leaving a bar-tobacco "at 5 km / h maximum" when he had to swerve to avoid the police car arrived in front. His scooter was rolling then, it is true, in the prohibited direction and in an area normally reserved for pedestrians.
After the collision, the scooter rider had run towards the van "to make a statement", by activating the camera of his phone, and had "gently" tapped on the window to make it stop.
But one of the three policemen had got out and ordered him to go up, aiming him with his Taser "at the level of the forehead" ... Worse: once inside the vehicle, the policeman had "hit twice with the hand closed ”the young Syrian, according to the latter.
A doctor also prescribed three days of total incapacity for work (ITT) in view of the injuries he had to the face and the brow bone.
The peacekeeper refused to respond to the IGPN
To justify the illegal use of force and his electric pulse pistol, the police officer had therefore certified in his handrail that the scooter had "moved away at the last moment", that its driver had "hit the window very violently" of the van and that his crew had "had to use force" to get him to the police station. And he had only "pushed" the Syrian's hand inside the vehicle. But the images of the victim's cell phone and the video surveillance had denied his version.
Contacted by the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), following the young Syrian's complaint to the public prosecutor, the police officer had outright refused, at first, to be heard in connection with 'a free hearing: "very aggressive", this official of the SGP-FO Unit union - also a municipal councilor in charge of security in his commune - had sharply replied to his colleague from the IGPN that he "did not understand this relentlessness ”and to be heard“ over a period of leave ”. He had finally complied: according to him, he had been "threatened to be taken by force to the Nantes police station with handcuffs on his wrists".
His defense "hallucinated" the lawyer for the civil party. "If my client left Syria, it was because he was looking for security: he was afraid there of the omnipotence of the army and the police, who are capable of kidnapping", has cropped Me Matthieu Herla. While waiting for an expert report, the lawyer requested an initial provision of 1,500 euros and 800 euros in legal fees. "If in this case we had not had video surveillance, and if I had subsequently received a complaint from the victim, I would of course have closed it
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: I give credit to the police, ”enraged Sylvie Canovas-Lagarde, the prosecutor of the Republic of Saint-Nazaire. She therefore demanded six months' suspended probation, including an obligation to compensate the victim. "It is a trade unionist who disturbs, some have told me that he was a whistleblower," replied Me Augustin Moulinas, the defendant's lawyer. “I wonder if there wasn't an instrumentalization of this non-business. »Judgment on May 18th.