The European Court of Human Rights considers that the police officers were "particularly violent" on that day. The international court condemned Thursday "unanimously" France for an arrest carried out by the GIPN on June 18, 2002, at the home of an applicant, in Contes, above Nice (Alpes-Maritimes). The State will have to pay him the sum of 22.803 euros in moral and material damages.
The elite unit of the national police had first arrested members of a family close to the then suspect suspect in a case of death threats and subornation of witnesses. "At the request of the commander" responsible for conducting these arrests, the GIPN agreed to also arrest the applicant, also accused and later whitewashed.
"Significant injuries" and "mental suffering"
"Many hooded and armed agents" then forced access to his house and arrested him, "in front of his wife and daughter", details the ECHR. The muscular nature of the intervention is evidenced by "medical certificates" showing the "significant injuries" inflicted on the applicant, who also had to endure "psychological suffering". His arrest "necessarily caused strong feelings of fear and anxiety in him, which could humiliate and degrade him," she notes.
The ECHR, which indicates that the applicant was not prosecuted for acts of rebellion, considers, on the contrary, that "the acts carried out by several police officers wearing helmets and protected by shields were particularly violent".
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