Arthur, 23, had filed a complaint for alleged police violence that occurred in Lyon on December 10, 2019. - Bastien Doudaine

Arthur lost nine teeth and his jaw fractured on December 10 on Place Bellecour in Lyon, on the sidelines of a demonstration against the pension reform. Seven months later, two police officers suspected of hitting this 23-year-old man have just been sent to prison.

The Lyon public prosecutor's office confirms the information on the Rue89Lyon site, indicating at 20 minutes that the audience for these two officials from the Rhône DDSP, "for acts of willful violence by anyone responsible for public authority", is set for December 10, 2020 in Lyon. Or a year to the day after the fact.

Fractured jaw, broken teeth, he accuses the police of violence https://t.co/6KoEDcjOl8

- 20 Minutes (@ 20Minutes) December 11, 2019

"Those who beat me up are savages"

"I received a rear punch head and clubbed in the teeth, at the time had told Arthur to 20 Minutes . A policeman was holding my head down when I received the blow from another, with all his might. Then I took a shoot which knocked me to the ground. I was punched. When they stopped, a CRS kicked my leg again. He said "good for your face". "

The young man, forced that day to wait seven hours at the dental emergency, told us the next day of his determination to start a legal action: "I want to speak because this is the only thing I can do to that it stops. I'm not saying that all the police are like that. But those who beat me up are savages. They did it for free, in packs and insulting me. ”

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