Unionist clubbed by police officer: the Paris prosecutors office opens investigation!

The Paris prosecutor's office opens an investigation into the baton blows carried out by a police officer against a RATP driver. The protester was hit when she wanted to pick up her phone during the retirement protest on Friday, January 9.

This preliminary investigation, entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), was opened for "willful violence with a weapon by a person responsible for the public authority having resulted in a disability of less than eight days," said the prosecution.

It follows a complaint filed Friday by this demonstrator, driver at the RATP and activist of the Unsa union who accuses the police, video in support, of having struck her violently during this rally against the pension reform.
 

    Our comrade Damien and Irene conductor on line 9 of the Usana RATP beaten up for having picked up his phone on the ground! unacceptable

In this video, filmed near Saint-Lazare station and widely relayed on social networks, we see a policeman strike her with several telescopic batons, especially on the face, while she is trying to pick up her fallen mobile phone. down.
 "I saw a policeman who had hatred in his eyes," said RTL this mother, victim of a head trauma and multiple bruises.
Police under fire of violence
The Paris prosecutor's office had already opened an investigation Friday after the dissemination of a video showing a police officer shooting at close range on demonstrators with an LBD during this same demonstration, marked by numerous scuffles between demonstrators and police.

Monday, another complaint was filed for police violence there also filmed, during this rally. In the video, we see the victim being repeatedly punched when he found himself on the ground while trying to come to the aid of a woman dragged on the road by the police. The complainant "did not know this woman but he wanted to rescue her because she was screaming and looked like she was feeling bad," his lawyer, Camille Vannier, told AFP. Placed in police custody, he was released on Saturday without any charges being brought against him.

During his vows to the national police, the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner recalled Monday during his vows to the police at the National School of Police Officers (Ensop) of Cannes-Ecluse in Seine-et-Marne . He recalled that the police force with the duty of "exemplarity", after a new wave of accusations of police violence.

The fair and proportionate use of force is what separates democracy from arbitrariness, what distinguishes order and brutality, it is the foundation, too, of our confidence with the French argued the Minister of Interior. It is the honor of the police that is at stake, we do not take issue with ethics, except to lower ourselves, to lower the police ", added the Minister, an explicit reference to a video showing a policeman tripping over a demonstrator in Toulouse.

TRENDING: Yellow vests: the first police officers tried in Paris for violence sentenced to a suspended sentence

It is the first time that police officers have been tried for violence against yellow vests. One threw a paving stone at a protester during the May Day demonstration, the other gave two slaps to a protester.

The 44-year-old CRS was prosecuted by the Paris Criminal Court for willful violence on the part of a person holding public authority. The policeman had launched a pavement in the direction of demonstrators during the mobilization of May 1, in the 13th district of the capital.

The prosecution had requested a three-month suspended prison sentence. He was sentenced to two months suspended prison sentence this Thursday. He can continue to exercise his profession.
Facts
A video by Laurent Bortolussi, journalist for the independent agency Line Press had toured social networks. We see a police officer, a brigadier member of the CRS 27 based in Toulouse, throwing paving stones towards yellow vests on May 1, without seeing if he has injured.

The facts took place in front of the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital (Paris XIII), during a day of action marked by clashes.

It is the first time that a police officer has been tried for police violence against yellow vests.
Second police officer sentenced to four months suspended prison sentence
Another police officer was tried on Thursday for slapping two demonstrators in the May Day parade in Paris. He was sentenced to a four-month suspended prison sentence, and will have to pay the protester 1,000 euros for damages.

The prosecution had requested a five-month suspended prison sentence against this member of the police, judging his gesture