An investigation was opened after a man who claimed to have been the victim of a homophobic attack by three men in a street in Lille filed a complaint, the prefecture said Sunday. "The complaint was filed, an investigation was entrusted to the Lille urban security under the leadership of the prosecutor.The first acts of investigation were completed," said the prefecture of North in a statement.
The police station in Lille refuses his complaint. According to the complainant's account, 34-year-old Fares Araoudiou was assaulted at around 8:00 pm on Wednesday evening: three men allegedly instigated homophobic insults when he saw him holding his companion, insults he would have answered before a fight broke out. broke out. Fares Araoudiou also claimed that the police station of Lille refused to register his complaint, for lack of presentation of medical certificate. He finally filed suit Saturday night in Montpellier, where he lives.
Medical certificate. "According to the procedure in force, the agents who welcomed them asked them to do, as a first step, to note the wounds by a doctor and to count the days of ITT making it possible to qualify the facts criminally", affirmed the prefecture. The prefect of the North and the departmental director of public security also recall that "attacks of racist and homophobic type will not go unpunished."