Will the police officers involved in the racist messages case finally be reinstated?
In any case, that is their request.
The public rapporteur of the Administrative Court of Rouen on Tuesday asked for the annulment of the dismissal of an agent and the confirmation of that of another, in a case of racist remarks targeting a black ex-colleague.
The court will render its decision "within a fortnight," said its president Jérôme Berthet-Fouqué.
The case dates back to 2019. The words referred to were made on the WhatsApp messaging where the victim, who lodged a complaint that year, has, on numerous occasions, been treated as a "nigger" doing "anything because that it is a black ”.
Tuesday, the public rapporteur Thomas Bertoncini advocated "the cancellation" of the dismissal of one of the police.
“There is a problem with the proportionality of the sanction.
He is the one who took the least part in the exchanges.
It is qualified as being the most discreet by the administrative investigation ”, he justified.
150 euros fine were requested by the prosecution against this police officer.
About "fifty" discriminatory messages
“He indicated that he did not read all the written messages. There are only five messages held which are reproached to him, held over two days:
the blacks, it is the future
,
it is black work
,
the whites, it is something else
”, continued the magistrate. which ensures that his client is "qualified as serious and providing quality work by his administration".
On the other hand, the rapporteur requested the rejection of the request of a second police officer who also requested the annulment of his dismissal.
About him, "the administration did not go astray," said Thomas Bertoncini.
The official “produced around fifty publications on this WhatsApp account.
Their racist, anti-Semitic, misogynistic, discriminatory character is evident from their reading, ”argued the magistrate.
In addition, the official "has already been the subject of a reprimand in 2018", added the magistrate.
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His lawyer Marie-Perrine Philippe, she assured that the police officer was "in great depression" and had "always been exemplary" until then.
“The WhatsApp group is not a public group,” she added.
"There are communities that do not like what I represent, the white male, and I apply a form of reciprocity", his client declared on September 3 in Evreux during the criminal trial of five police officers in this case. .
