Police sentenced to three years in prison for assaulting teenager

Illustration of police officers in Marseille -

Already convicted at first instance, two Marseille police officers were sentenced on Tuesday by the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal to two years in prison and one year suspended after the violent assault of a teenager in the neighborhoods North, learned

from the victim's lawyer, Me Linda Sennaoui.

The Court of Appeal also prohibited the police officers from exercising their functions, unlike the Marseille Criminal Court which, at first instance, had left this decision in the hands of the hierarchy of the two police officers.

However, as revealed

a few months ago, after this heavy sentence, the two police officers continued to exercise.

They were finally suspended on the day of publication of the

article

, in the midst of a debate on police violence in France.

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• Police

• Northern districts

• Marseilles

• Police violence