On a recording, a policeman treats a woman who reported a sexual assault as a “whore”.

She filed a complaint and an investigation for "non-public insults" was opened, according to information obtained this Wednesday from the Paris prosecutor's office.

"Following the filing of a complaint on Tuesday at the premises of the General Inspectorate of the National Police, a preliminary investigation was opened on the grounds of non-public insults," said the Paris prosecutor's office.

The penalty incurred is a fine of 1,500 euros.

A badly hung up phone

The 34-year-old young woman had filed a first complaint on the night of February 4 to 5 with police officers from the police station of the 5th and 6th arrondissements of Paris for "sexual assault while intoxicated",

Mediapart

reported on Tuesday.

A police officer from this police station had called her back at midday and had left her a voice message asking her to come and complete her complaint.

Believing to have hung up, we hear the official joking with one of his colleagues: “I will call her back anyway because she must be sleeping off!

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"Big Whore"

Then reading aloud an excerpt from the young woman's complaint, he adds: "It doesn't actually make sense, the complaint".

"Ah obviously she refuses confrontation," he said then.

In this excerpt from a damning recording obtained by @Mediapart, we hear a police officer insulting a woman several times who came to file a complaint for #SexualAssault.



Listen in full here 👉 https://t.co/1tKuaP7Syz.

Warning, the words are shocking.

pic.twitter.com/sBWZmEMgte

— Mediapart (@Mediapart) February 15, 2022

“She really is a whore.

(…) Damn, she refuses the confrontation and moreover the whore.

As if by chance.

In fact it was just to break his balls, I'm sure.

(…) Whore, big whore, ”he concludes, before the handset is hung up.

“Inadmissible remarks”

This affair has aroused numerous criticisms, particularly within feminist circles which regularly denounce the poor consideration by the police of victims of sexual violence.

Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said on Wednesday that this policeman had "no longer his place" within the national police.

The prefect of police Didier Lallement condemned him on Tuesday "inadmissible remarks" and announced that he had seized the "police of police" (IGPN) of an administrative investigation and requested the suspension of the police officer as a precaution.

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Sexual assault: A policeman insults a woman who came to file a complaint on his answering machine

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