The General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) was seized after videos posted on the Internet showed a muscular arrest carried out by the police on Tuesday evening in a sensitive district of Limoges. The public prosecutor said he had requested "the safeguarding of all the videos broadcast on social networks" and "that a forensic doctor examine the person arrested".
Jean-Philippe Rivaud, who confirmed information from the Populaire du Center , also explained that it was "necessary to contextualize these videos". "It is for this reason that I opened a global judicial investigation, on the entirety of the facts, and that I seized the IGPN of Bordeaux", added.
"As soon as there is an arrest like this, the police are thrown into the pasture"
On these videos, you can hear what looks like a LBD shot and see a man who was overpowered by two BAC police officers and then put on the ground. A third police officer then comes running and strikes the victim's back hard on the ground, then punchs him in the face. Protests are heard and one of the police then uses a de-encirclement grenade.
According to a police source in Limoges, "the 43-year-old Tunisian man in an irregular situation on the territory was drunk, with 1.2 g / L of alcohol in his blood, and was in front of a cannabis deal place known "in the Beaubreuil district," a real drug drive "in Limoges. "What the video does not show," continues this source, "is that there were about fifteen of them and had just thrown stones and glass bottles at the BAC, without reaching them. The man arrested was one of them. He approached a police officer threatening him and received a flashball shot. The other two police officers then arrived. A grenade was used so that they could disengage. ”
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Colette Angleraud, of the SGP Police union in Limoges, assured that the work of the police during this period of confinement was "extremely difficult". “They are taunted, insulted, hurt and stoned, which we don't talk about. But as soon as there is an inquiry like this, we throw them in the pasture, she regretted. We are aware of the difficulty of confinement, especially in the cities, but the people who insult and threaten the police officers are not choirboys ”.
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