Paris (AFP)

An investigation is opened for "willful violence by person holding public authority" after a police officer was filmed throwing to the ground the deputy LFI Bénédicte Taurine during a demonstration of farmers Thursday at the Parisian headquarters of Pôle Emploi, a indicated the Paris prosecutor's office on Friday, requested by AFP.

This investigation, entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), will aim "in particular to determine with exactitude the circumstances of the facts with regard to the general context of the intervention of the police forces", underlined the parquet.

Insubordinate France had demanded "a clear condemnation" from the government and "prosecution" against this filmed policeman throwing to the ground the LFI deputy Bénédicte Taurine.

The images broadcast on BFMTV and social networks show the member for Ariège, surrounded by her tricolor scarf, tossed about in a stampede in front of the building, then a police officer behind her who grabs her in the back and throws her to the ground.

The rebellious France asked the government in the evening, via a press release, "a clear condemnation of this act and the prosecution of this police official".

"There are those who say that + the problem of the police is justice. + There are those who hope that a demonstration will bring down + the dikes of the law and the Constitution. + There are some for whom an elected woman in a tricolor scarf does not represent anything. Is there a pilot inside? "Asked the number two of LFI Adrien Quatennens on Friday on Twitter, referring to the slogans of the demonstration of police in front of the National Assembly on May 19.

"Chilling", tweeted the LFI deputy Alexis Corbière about the images, using the word used by the socialist regional candidate Audrey Pulvar to describe the demonstration as police officers and which had sparked a controversy with the Minister of the Interior.

Bénédicte Taurine, for her part, deplored a "deafening silence from Richard Ferrand (President of the National Assembly, Editor's note) and Emmanuel Macron".

The holder of the perch of the Assembly, however, asked the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin "the necessary clarifications for this event" in a letter which AFP was aware of.

Mr. Ferrand specifies that the deputy surrounded by her tricolor scarf is "easily identifiable".

He was also arrested by the president of the Communist group in the Assembly André Chassaigne, angered by this "unspeakable and unacceptable violence", asking him to express on behalf of all the deputies "the indignation of the national representation" during the next questions to the government.

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In the majority, the vice-president LREM of the Assembly Hugues Renson assured Ms. Taurine of her "republican solidarity".

"The violence used against an elected representative of the Nation, wearing her tricolor scarf, is unspeakable and unacceptable," he tweeted.

The communist Sébastien Jumel judged the scene "unacceptable" and called on Twitter that "the right to demonstrate, the free exercise of the parliamentary mandate (are) guaranteed".

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