Two police officers in front of the IGPN for the broadcasting of a video of the assault of a colleague

This is a case that revives the debate on the dissemination of images filmed by the police.

This Friday, two agents are summoned to the IGPN in Metz.

In question: a video posted on social networks last August and widely relayed.

We saw a policeman dragged by a driver for 500 meters.

The latter has since been sentenced on appeal to 5 years in prison. 

"It's frankly hypocritical"

The sequence, very violent, had been posted online by a police union.

But the problem is that the video, filmed by a police officer's personal camera, should never have been shown.

At least that is what the prosecutor believes, because these images were entered in the proceedings and are therefore subject to professional secrecy.

The Nancy prosecutor therefore opened a preliminary investigation for "violation of professional secrecy" against the police officer and his union representative, who posted the footage online.

An investigation denounced by Linda Kebbab, national delegate of the SGP Police Unit union: "What is shocking is that it is a personal camera, and that the broadcast of this video is there just to alert on the daily working conditions police officers".

For the policewoman, this investigation testifies to a form of "hypocrisy" against the police: "throughout the years, we are told that the work of the police is difficult and that we support them . This is frankly hypocritical ".

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