In a video the police intervention at a clandestine party in Marseille: "brutally beaten"

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05 May 2021 Scenes that we are used to seeing in the United States and that we would not expect to see in the 'old continent' but which instead also happen in France where human rights are the foundations of the Constitution. We are in Marseille, there is a curfew, the BAC police the Brigade Anti-Criminalité arrives near a building near the Saint-Charles station where a clandestine party is underway and three officers start beating up a white boy of 23 years on the hood of a car. 

Later the young man is grabbed by the hair, handcuffed and taken to the car that will take him to the police station where he will stay 40 hours with his partner, accused of "insulting a public official".

The video is taken by a neighbor and in a short time ago the tour of social networks in France, published by the online newspaper La Provence passes in the edition of 20 of Tf1 to reach us. Here it is:

According to the reconstruction, when the police arrived, all the participants in the party tried to escape along the external stairs of the building. The young man visibly drunk, while he is beaten up by the agents. A friend comes to his aid, a 32-year-old woman who in an attempt to stop the attack is also brutally yanked, beaten and thrown to the ground twice. A policeman sprays tear gas on her.

A behavior perhaps a little too aggressive on the part of the police towards those young people guilty only of having attended a party in times of Covid. After being released, the couple filed a complaint. 

"My client never tried to escape, he was searched and hit, his partner who saw the scene said she asked the officers to stop because they could kill him and she was hit, they sprayed her with tear gas and thrown to the ground for free, "said their Me lawyer Thomas Hugues. "Crucial to the complaint was the video we obtained from a neighbor that proves the exact opposite of the accusations made against them by the police, now we ask that the facts be shed". 

The French National Police (IPGN) has opened an investigation into the incident while accusations against the Marseille police of 'abuse of power' and violence are coming from everywhere.