REACTION
Two police officers dismissed in correctional and 18 cases entrusted to investigating judges. This is the report released Thursday by the Paris prosecutor on the state of 212 investigations entrusted to the Inspectorate General of the National Police (IGPN) regarding potential police violence in the margins of the demonstrations of "yellow vests". While 54 cases have been dismissed, a quarter of the cases, these figures are far from appeasing the anger of the victims of this violence, like Maria. "We can not trust the police," she regrets at the microphone of Europe 1.
"Two is anything," she says indignantly. "It shows that they want to classify the business without continuation so that it is quickly botched". In December 2018, the 19 year old girl said she was violently beaten by police officers in Marseille, as she was returning home after her day's work, the trip having made it through a demonstration of "yellow vests".
"The IGPN did not listen to me"
In a survey published Tuesday, Mediapart reveals that the IGPN has actively tried to cover the police officers targeted by the investigation into the violence suffered by Maria. "The IGPN did not listen to me," she reports for Europe 1. "I did four and a half hours of audition, they asked me a lot if it was a policeman (who had knocked), I told them yes but they did not want to listen.
According to Mediapart, which publishes the document in question, the director of the IGPN sent an email to the head of the BIS. "After your audition (...) could you send me via WhatsApp photos of your staff taken on the day of the facts? I am responsible for blurring the faces (...) it will discriminate formally in view of their clothing on the day of the facts, "she wrote.
"What they did not understand is that they are there to protect us," regrets Maria, returning to the figures published by the prosecution. He added: "I would like people to remember that we are safe nowhere, we can not trust police services, the day they want to cover a case, instead of showing solidarity with we will be in solidarity with them ". "The only thing I want is for them to be punished," says the young woman.