The events occurred at the end of January at the Angoulême police station in Charente, "on the sidelines of the placement in police custody of an individual suspected of having, with others, committed a sexual assault on the passenger of a TGV" , according to Stéphanie Aouine, public prosecutor in Angoulême.
Two police officers from this police station are suspected of violence and racist insults against this man.
They are suspected of having struck him and of having described him as a “bougnoule”, according to information from Charente Libre.
The scene was allegedly captured on video by the “pedestrian camera” of one of the police officers, the prosecutor confirmed.
Jean-Luc Taltavull, departmental director of the national police, confirmed having sent a report to the public prosecutor's office after learning, at the end of January, that these two public highway police officers "were likely to have engaged in illegitimate violence (coup) doubled racist remarks to the detriment of a third party.
A judicial investigation was opened and the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) was contacted.
In addition, the national police announced that they had reassigned the two police officers who were disarmed to “administrative tasks”.
“An administrative investigation has been opened and they will be suspended,” she wrote on her X account (formerly Twitter).