A young man who accuses the police of "aggravated violence" during a check related to confinement in Ulis, in Essonne, complained to the Evry prosecutor's office on Friday, we learned from the lawyer for the young man.
The complaint against X, which AFP was able to consult, was notably filed for "intentional violence aggravated by a person holding public authority, in a meeting, with use or threat of a weapon" and "non-assistance to anyone in danger".
"The mistake he had was to run away"
Monday late afternoon, Sofiane, logistics agent at Amazon and resident of Ulis, went from his father's home to that of his mother before going to his night work, according to the account of the latter. "The wrong thing he did was run away when he saw the police. He explained that he did this because he was afraid of being beaten up and that in addition, he did not have his certificate on him, "said his mother Aïcha to AFP.
The sequence of events appears in videos massively shared on social networks. The young man, surrounded by several agents from the anti-crime brigade, was knocked down and beaten multiple times, then brought under the porch of a building from which his shrill cries escaped.
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Samim Bolaky, the plaintiff's lawyer, stressed the "post-traumatic stress" suffered by his client, noting the "extremely serious nature" of this violence, "especially in this period of health crisis". "The police violence we are talking about is institutional and it is something extremely frightening. (...) We are in neighborhoods where perfectly honest people live in fear of encountering the police," he said. valued. Me Bolaky also requested the opening of an investigation at the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN, the police force).
4 days of ITT
"Why are we isolating him to continue the massacre?" Indignant his mother, still in shock. "I do not recognize my son, he is slaughtered, absent," she says in a sob, describing him as being usually "very sensitive".
The young man, injured in the face and with numerous bruises on the body, was prescribed four days of ITT, according to a medical certificate that AFP was able to consult.