“When I said that I was an MEP, he didn't believe me. Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana, a German MEP of African descent, said Wednesday before the European Parliament that she had undergone a racist and humiliating police intervention in Brussels while she was photographing an arrest which she considered abusive.
During a plenary session of the Parliament in Brussels, Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana, elected Greens, said that she had been "treated in a humiliating manner" by the police on Tuesday evening. “Four of the nine armed police brutally pushed me against the wall. They violently took my purse. They put me on the wall with my legs apart and a policeman wanted to feel me and search me, ”she said. The MEP decided to file a complaint for "not to let this police violence pass".
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