After the publication of the book "Flic", the Paris prosecutor's office opens an investigation.

He wishes to identify "the facts likely to fall within the scope of a criminal qualification" in the text of Valentin Gendrot after two years of infiltration in the Parisian police.

The Paris prosecutor's office announced on Friday that it had opened an investigation after the publication of a book written by journalist Valentin Gendrot.

The latter infiltrated the Parisian police for two years and evokes "beatings" committed by officials of the 19th arrondissement in Paris.

Identify "the facts likely to fall within the scope of a criminal qualification" 

The investigation, opened after a report from the Paris police headquarters, aims to "identify" in the book

Flic

(ed. Goutte d'Or) "the facts likely to fall within the scope of a criminal qualification" and been entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), said the Paris prosecutor's office.

Valentin Gendrot wishes in his book to highlight "police violence and the ill-being of police officers".

The culture of silence around police abuses but also the lack of training of officers and their lack of resources are mentioned in particular.

Thursday, the Paris police headquarters had also announced that it had seized the "police police" with another investigation, this time administrative.

"At this stage, the accused police officers are not identified and the alleged facts are not verified," added the police headquarters.

A major blunder covered?

The most explosive passage of his book, Valentin Gendrot claims to have witnessed a "blunder" committed by a colleague and that he himself covered with other police officers.

During a control which degenerates, a police officer puts several "slaps" and "slaps" to a teenager, then "punches", according to the report of the journalist.

The young man, whose seriousness of injuries is not detailed, is taken to the police station for an identity check.

The police officer then files a complaint for contempt and threats, the teenager for violence.

A "lying" report is written to "charge the kid and absolve" the policeman, says Valentin Gendrot.

In an interview with AFP, he explained that he had also incriminated the teenager during an internal investigation, in order to be able to "denounce a thousand other mistakes of this type", even if "it was an extremely complicated decision".