An investigation was opened on April 8 by the Paris prosecutor's office for "rape" and "violence" after accusations of a man in his twenties against police officers from the police station of the nineteenth arrondissement in Paris, learned this Thursday Le Parisien, confirming information from Streetpress and Le Media.
The investigations were entrusted to the IGPN.
An administrative investigation has also been opened, AFP said.
As revealed by Streetpress and Le Media, "Tommi" filed a complaint Wednesday for "violence" of a racist nature by a person holding public authority and aggravated "rape".
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Tommi tells, with a medical certificate, the hell he experienced at the 19th arrondissement police station.
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He had already lodged a complaint on April 8 with the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), which according to the police headquarters led to the opening of an administrative investigation and according to the Paris prosecutor's office the opening of a criminal investigation for "violence by person holding public authority" and "rape by person in authority".
Both investigations are entrusted to the IGPN.
In the complaint, "Tommi" says he was arrested on April 5 after fleeing a police check on a suspicion of car theft that he disputes.
On this occasion, he assures us that two policemen "strangled", hit and insulted him, one of them indicating: "you're dead, I'm going to fuck your mother, you dirty Arab".
Taken to the 19th arrondissement police station, which is already the subject of other investigations on suspicion of police violence, "Tommi" was placed in police custody, in particular for "concealment of theft" and "refusal to comply".
At the time of his search, according to the complaint, one of the two police officers asked him to undress completely and the other "lowered (his) underwear and inserted his finger in (Tommi) 's rectum".
The young man indicates that he was then kept in underpants "for about twenty minutes" in a corridor of the police station, "handcuffed to a bench", in the cold, being "the object of insults and mockery" by the police.
A version of the facts disputed by the police
According to him, some called him “Theo”, in reference to Théodore Luhaka, a 22-year-old black man now disabled for life after being injured in the rectal area during his arrest in 2017 in Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine -St Denis).
“Tommi” was examined in the medico-judicial unit of the Hôtel Dieu on April 7.
In his report, excerpts from which appear in the complaint, the doctor noted injuries to different parts of the body and "a reddish punctiform millimeter excoriation" during the external anal examination, "findings compatible with the statements of the complainant".
The two police officers filed a complaint for contempt and rebellion. According to a police source in Le Parisien, the 19th century officials formally deny the accusations made by the complainant. "The individual was driving in a car reported as stolen a week earlier, without a license, and fled during his check, failing to run over pedestrians," said this source. From the start of his arrest, he did everything to make sure things went wrong and accuse the police. He also declared in particular that the officials had stolen 1,400 euros from his car, but the search was carried out in the presence of two witnesses. ”The same source recalls that he had been taken into custody for no less than seven offenses.
