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Fabrice Elsner / 20 Minutes

A book that ignited the powder.

The Paris police headquarters announced on Thursday that it had reported to the public prosecutor facts of violence in a police station in the capital, reported in the book

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by an undercover journalist, and seized the "police police".

In this book published Thursday by Goutte d'Or editions, Valentin Gendrot recounts his two years of infiltration into the Parisian police, from September 2017, made of racist and homophobic violence and insults, but also of lack of resources, suicides and ill-being of the troops.

"Serious acts"

In the most explosive passage, he tells, then stationed at the police station of the 19th arrondissement in Paris, having witnessed a "blunder" when a police officer beat and insulted a teenager who had provoked him, after a control.

The police officer filed a complaint for contempt and threats, the teenager for violence, according to the author of the book.

A “lying” report is then written to “charge the kid and absolve” the police officer, says Valentin Gendrot, who will also incriminate the teenager during an internal investigation.

The author denounces in his book "serious actions", reacted the police headquarters, which affirms that "at this stage, the accused police officers are not identified and the alleged facts are not verified".

"The Prefect of Police reaffirms all his support for the police"

“In order to establish the veracity of the facts related in this book and relayed by the media, and at the request of the Minister of the Interior, the Prefect of Police, Didier Lallement, brought them to the attention of the public prosecutor and at the same time applied for administrative purposes to the General Inspectorate of the National Police, ”she added in her press release.

"The investigation will also have to determine the reasons for which the alleged facts were not the object of an immediate report to the prosecutor" continues the PP.

"The Prefect of Police reaffirms his full support for the police officers who carry out their daily missions with professionalism in often difficult conditions", concludes the prefecture.

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