StreetPress on Tuesday revealed cases of mistreatment of detainees at the Paris court depot. The prosecution said Tuesday that an investigation had been opened, in particular for willful violence by people holding public authority.

While the Streetpress media had revealed on Monday mistreatment at the Paris court depot, the prosecution on Tuesday opened an investigation into the counts of willful violence by people holding public authority, public insults due to the origin, ethnicity, nation, race or religion and and public name calling on the basis of sex or sexual orientation.

Testimony of a police whistleblower

The investigations concerning these facts, unveiled on Monday by the testimony of one of these police officers, and which would have occurred from 2017 to 2019, "are entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police," said the Paris prosecutor's office.