Geneviève Legay, in Nice, March 23, 2019, before her fall. - Claude Paris / AP / SIPA

He was suspended on charges of violation and concealment of professional secrecy. A police officer from the Departmental Public Security Directorate (DDSP) of the Alpes-Maritimes, suspected of having been the source of a Mediapart journalist in the case surrounding the violence committed against a 73-year-old demonstrator in Nice in 2019, has been dismissed, we learned from the national police.

On Tuesday evening, the online media reported that one of its journalists had responded to a summons from the IGPN the same day. Pascale Pascariello, "who had demonstrated the lies of the President of the Republic in a case of police violence, was heard as suspicious," said the pureplayer.

"We are in the dark"

On March 23, 2019, Geneviève Legay, 73, activist of Attac and many other causes had been seriously injured during a police charge during a prohibited demonstration, in support of the "yellow vests". The Nice prosecutor had initially denied any physical "contact" on the part of the police, comments taken up by Emmanuel Macron. Then the magistrate recognized that she had been pushed by a police officer.

The prosecutor has since been transferred to the Lyon Court of Appeal at the end of 2019. And the investigation into the violence, in which a police officer on the ground was charged, was also disoriented in Lyon where Geneviève Legay, convalescent, has been heard. His lawyers were unable to access the file. “We are in the dark. The Lyon investigating judge does not respond to our requests, which is illegal, ”said Me Arie Alimi.

Justice

Mediapart journalist summoned by the IGPN in the Geneviève Legay case

Justice

Transferred to Lyon after the Legay case, the prosecutor settles his accounts at his starting point

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