Last January, during a rally against pension reform, this official tripped a demonstrator.
This police officer was sentenced Monday to a suspended fine of 1,500 euros and must pay 1,600 euros in damages to his victim "for moral damage and legal costs".
A police officer who tripped up a demonstrator in January in Toulouse, a gesture filmed and widely shared on social networks, was sentenced Monday to a suspended fine of 1,500 euros, we learned from a union source .
An image that had been around social networks
The official was also ordered to pay 1,600 euros in damages to the victim "for moral prejudice and legal costs", said the news site
Actu Toulouse
.
The image of the trifle during the Toulouse demonstration against the pension reform of January 11 had made the rounds of social networks, against the backdrop of growing denunciation of police violence in the wake of the mobilization of "yellow vests" and on pensions.
Eighth foot of a keuf # greve # 9janvier in Toulouse.
Full video available on my Youtube page https://t.co/mEUYqx2ynA
- Djema (@djemadine) January 10, 2020
"We do not trip up ethics, except to stoop, to lower the police", had launched the former Minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner, in an explicit reference to the Toulouse affair during his wishes to the national police in January.
The Toulouse prosecutor had opened an investigation in this case for "violence by a person holding public authority" which he had entrusted to the IGPN.