A hundred people marched Wednesday to denounce the arrest last week of 151 young people in Mantes-la-Jolie, which resulted in the filing of five new complaints. "What happened to me is a raid, my son was insulted and humiliated," indignant Rachida, 40, a member of a collective created after the arrests and whose son has spent nearly 24 hours in custody. On the sidelines of a national mobilization of high school students, 151 young people aged 12 to 21 were arrested Thursday near a high school in Mantes-la-Jolie, Yvelines, after incidents. The video of their arrest, kneeling on the ground and hands on their heads, caused an uproar. At the end of their custody, most of them received simple reminders of the law.
"They wanted to make us examples." "I am still shocked, I had no appetite and I still have not returned to school," said Camélia, 15, during the march organized in Mantes-la-Jolie. Thursday, this high school girl had followed the movement of crowd before being stopped while she returned home. "They wanted us to be examples to stop protests, it would not have happened in the same way in a neighborhood more affluent," said 15-year-old Sofiane, who hopes that an investigation will be conducted on the words and behavior of the police.
Five new complaints filed. The lawyer for several families, Arié Alimi, announced Wednesday that he filed five new complaints against X at Versailles, including "torture and barbarism" and "illegal distribution" of videos of persons hindered. He also asked the prosecutor of Versailles the change of scenery. "The authorities of Versailles should not in our judgment judge and investigate these cases to avoid that, as in (...) other cases where it is the police officers who are targeted, the investigation does not advance ", justified Mr. Alimi. On Saturday, this lawyer had already announced the filing of a complaint on behalf of the UNL high school union. While defending the regularity of the arrests, the Minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner, had announced last week that a "procedure" would be launched to evaluate the action of the police and identify the author of the video controversial.