A police biker here during a check in Rennes.
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C. Allain / 20 Minutes
The prosecution had requested a six-month suspended prison sentence.
A biker from the national police was sentenced this Wednesday to two months in prison suspended by the Angers Criminal Court for violence during a motorist check in 2019. Aged 51, this Angevin police officer with motorcycle training urban (FMU) was prosecuted for violence by a person holding public authority.
In November 2019, May 2020 and June 2020, bikers from the national police, including the defendant, checked drivers who had committed a traffic violation.
These interventions escalated and led to police violence, according to the prosecution and the complainants.
On Wednesday, the court acquitted him for the facts of May and June 2020 but sentenced for those of November 2019.
"Unjustified blows"
Pointing out the similarities between the three cases, the prosecutor of the Republic of Angers Éric Bouillard had estimated that the defendant had "very much exceeded the limits of the reasonable".
Maître Pascal Rouiller had considered that his client had used force in an “appropriate” and “justified” manner in situations described as “dangerous” and in the face of “belligerent” attitudes, whereas two of the disputed interventions had taken place in so-called sensitive areas of Angers.
The three victims had explained to the investigators of the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), seized of the three investigations, to have received unjustified blows.
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