A police car in Lille.
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After the arrest filmed and broadcast on social networks, Tuesday, of an unmasked man at Fleury-les-Aubrais station (Loiret), the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) was seized on Wednesday, a announced the prosecutor of the Republic of Orleans.
"A video broadcast on social networks since this arrest shows (...) facts likely to constitute the offense of willful violence committed by a person holding public authority", indicated the magistrate, Emmanuelle Bochenek-Puren.
Without mask and drunk
According to the prosecution, the police intervened at Aubrais station on Tuesday afternoon, while an individual "without a mask" and "showing the apparent external signs of drunkenness" had been reported in the Paris-Toulouse train.
During the police intervention, the individual refused to put on his mask and get out of the compartment, "then violently resisted his arrest before brandishing a bladed weapon and attempting to strike a blow at the officials", according to the official. parquet.
According to the Central Republic, the man involved is a British citizen.
The man pinned to the ground for several minutes
Arrested, he was taken into custody for willful violence against a person holding public authority.
His state of health was "compatible with this measure," said Emmanuelle Bochenek-Puren.
On several videos filmed from the train and posted on social networks, we can see the man pinned to the ground on the platform by two police officers, one of whom had drawn a weapon.
The armed policeman presses vigorously with his foot for several tens of seconds on the head of the man, held to the ground by the other official.
The two policemen then seem to provide first aid to the individual, injured in his right arm.
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