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Arié Alimi, is the lawyer of "yellow vests". He is photographed during a press conference, after Jerome Rodrigues, one of the leaders of the movement, was shot in the eye on January 30, 2019. BERTRAND GUAY / AFP

According to Revelations du Canard chained on Wednesday, May 8, none of the 227 procedures opened by the IGPN police police, as part of the demonstrations of "yellow vests" has succeeded. In other words, the sometimes-badly injured protesters who went to court several months ago still have no news of the progress of police investigations.

According Arié Alimi, a lawyer for several protesters, everything would be done to delay the filing of complaints and the progress of investigations. " The police work for justice and therefore the judiciary protects these police, " he explains. There are several ways to slow down a procedure or to prevent it from happening.

I can give you some. For example, when opening an instruction, you have to deposit a log. Normally, when we do not have a lot of income, there is the case of people mutilated in the demonstrations, we do not pay any deposit. Here, in this case, we have an investigating judge who, for all those who are mutilated, sets important documents. "

A legal lock

" I, " says the lawyer, " have people who can not pay this money to open an instruction. One possibility to avoid the amount of this deposit is to apply for legal aid. And here we have the legal aid that refuses to agree to grant legal aid on the grounds that the instructions are not open.

So we have a real judicial lock. And the public prosecutor can also keep the file under the elbow, for a very long time, with regard to simple complaints.

So you have several methods that are used by the courts to prevent prosecution of police officers. "

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