- A police officer is referred to a disciplinary council and five others will be subject to sanctions after the report of another police officer for acts of racism or mistreatment at the deposit of the Paris judicial court.
- In reports, this police officer denounces insults, racism, deprivation of food, impediments to access to care, etc.
- According to a police source, the disciplinary council is convened for "reasons of inappropriate behavior towards detainees, breaches of the duty to set an example".
Racist and homophobic insults, mistreatment, deprivation of food, refusal of medical care, humiliation… Here is the daily life in the basements of the Paris court. More precisely in the cells of the depot. According to the StreetPress news site, more than a thousand people have been subjected to mistreatment by about twenty police officers, members of the night shift, during their stay in these undergrounds, before presentation to a magistrate.
It is thanks to Chief Brigadier Amar Benmohamed, also a judicial police officer and union delegate at SGP-Police Unit, who alerted his superiors on numerous occasions in reports dating from 2018 and 2019, and hundreds of internal documents, that the site was able to expose an entire system.
"Shut your mouth dirty bougnoule"
In one of the March 2019 reports that Franceinfo was also able to consult, the chief brigadier denounces the “regular” holding of “racist remarks against the referees of foreign origin, whether they are people from Maghrebian or African type ”. Racist and homophobic insults such as: "Shut your mouth dirty bougnoule, dirty race, nigga, dirty pd" were frequently used in front of other officials and even in the loudspeakers of the site. Or again: "I would throw all this for you in the Seine", "if they let me do it, I would set all these merguez on fire".
"To certain Muslim detainees, they also make believe that the food contains pork, so that they themselves deprive themselves of meals", relates Streetpress which specifies that certain officials even attack their own colleagues.
Sanctions
Three separate investigations were carried out by the IGPN. Completed in February 2020, one of the investigations for "ill-treatment, discriminatory remarks and offensive remarks likely to have been inflicted on persons referred to the Paris tribunal de grande instance" concludes with repeated acts of racism, and possibly mistreatment , note franceinfo. “To date no sanction has been taken and justice has not been seized for these facts,” says Streepress.
A police officer is referred to a disciplinary council and five others will be subject to sanctions after the report of another police officer for acts of racism or mistreatment at the depot of the Paris judicial court, AFP learned on Monday from The police headquarters. According to a police source, the disciplinary council will be convoked for "reasons of inappropriate behavior towards detainees, breaches of the duty to set an example".
Following an administrative investigation by the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) made in February, “a disciplinary council will be held in September for one of the officials and administrative sanctions, reprimands and warnings, are in progress. notification for five others "in view of" the seriousness of the alleged facts ", continued the PP.
In addition to reporting the facts to the Paris prosecutor, Amar Benmohamed has also announced a complaint with the constitution of civil party for alleged facts of "moral harassment" against him after his reports, told AFP his lawyer, Arié Alimi .
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