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The public prosecutor of Toulouse announces to have opened two investigations for possible police violence filmed during the last Saturday of mobilization of the "yellow vests" in the pink city.
Surveys were opened after the emotion aroused on social networks by two videos. In one of them, a man in a wheelchair is sprayed with tear gas.
The scene took place at the end of the event, Saturday, March 2, in the center of Toulouse. On the images, we can see a man in a wheelchair wearing a yellow vest discussing with a member of the police. He is obviously trying to recover his mask that has just been confiscated. In front of his insistence, the official seems exceeded and ends up to sprinkle it in the eyes of tear gas.
Questioned by the regional newspaper La Dépêche du Midi , Pascal Bourré, disabled hemiplegic, explains that he was then simply trying to pass this line of police to return home.
In a second video, we see a woman interacting with the police before being suddenly bludgeoned and thrown to the ground with the man who accompanies her. Concerning this last case, the prefecture of Haute-Garonne justifies the intervention of the police: invited to circulate, the couple would have uttered insults against the policemen.
Two investigations were therefore opened by the Toulouse prosecutor's office to identify the police officers and determine the exact circumstances of these two cases that have shocked social networks in recent hours.