The parquet of Bobigny seized the IGPN, police police, for alleged violence during the arrest, filmed by a witness, a young man of twenty years Friday in Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis), was learned Sunday, August 11 from the floor.
An investigation was opened for violence by a person in charge of public authority, said the prosecutor's office, confirming information from the Parisian. After the arrest, the young man was prescribed three days of ITT (total incapacity for work), according to the prosecution.
Several shots in the face
This intervention of the police of the security and intervention company of Seine-Saint-Denis (CSI) was captured by the surveillance cameras of the city and an amateur video, according to a judicial source.
The images show a man in civilian clothes, who would be a police officer, slapping several times on the young man's face, according to a source close to the investigation.
It was a police intervention in plainclothes in a narcotics case, told AFP a police source.
The young man, initially placed in custody for "drug trafficking", according to a judicial source, was heard by investigators of the IGPN and filed a complaint for violence against police officers. Her custody was lifted Saturday, August 10, in the afternoon, she added.
Another suspicious arrest
The police headquarters confirmed to AFP that the IGPN had been seized of this case which comes after the announcement of another case of interpellation resulting in the opening of an investigation: that of a two months pregnant woman who had a miscarriage after police custody Tuesday, August 6 in a Parisian police station.
These cases also occur in the wake of the death of Steve Maia Caniço, a young man found dead after his disappearance the night of a controversial police intervention during the Music Festival at the end of June in Nantes.