A brigadier and a peacekeeper will be tried on April 20 in Paris in correctional, suspected of having published racist messages in a Facebook group called "TN Rabiot Official Police", according to a source familiar with the matter.
At the end of December, the Paris prosecutor's office summoned these two members of the Facebook group "TN Rabiot Official Police", revealed by Streetpress in June 2020, for "public insult of a racial nature", and the second also for "public provocation to discrimination”.
On June 4, 2020, the Streetpress site indicated that there were “hundreds” of racist, sexist and homophobic messages on this Facebook group of 7,500 members for law enforcement, as well as calls for murder.
On "TN Rabiot Official Police", or "additional discussion channel" in police language, some officials made fun of the death of young men at the wheel of their motocross, called the singer Camélia Jordana a "dirty whore", who had denounced police violence… Faced with indignation, the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner had taken legal action.
Cop already suspended on Facebook for 'vaccine humor'
According to elements of the investigation opened by the Paris prosecutor's office, Fabrice DP., 50, a peacekeeper on availability, reacted thus to a prohibited demonstration in favor of undocumented migrants: "Always the same shit that braves all prohibited in this country.
The stinky "lefties" and the immigrants who don't even make 1/10th of a quarter of that at home.
“The one whose Facebook accounts were suspended for, according to him, “humor on vaccines”, concedes in June having written “under anger”.
He compares France to Thailand from which he returns: “There, the repression is immediate”.
Then contest any racist or discriminatory character.
Patrick C., a 44-year-old brigadier in the South West, heard a few days later, is accused of a reaction, under the pseudonym "Pat Apon", to the placement in custody of three Sudanese after the knife attack of Romans-sur-Isère, which had killed two people in March 2020: “This country has really become the trash can of the world… Full ass really, and one wonders why the French no longer support immigration”.
He recognizes comments that do not "fly high", "excessive" or even "offensive", but not criminal.
The question of private or public remarks
Beyond the criminal nature of the remarks, one of the issues in the trial could be whether they were made in a “private” or “public” manner, which would incur a more serious penalty for the police.
In July, the IGPN said it favored the first option in a report, given the parameters of "TN Rabiot" on Facebook and the existence of a filter to access it.
But the prosecution chose to prosecute Fabrice DP.
and Patrick C. for sentences considered "public" in view of the "large number of members" and the fact "that some are not police officers".
Two other police officers heard during the investigation were not, however, summoned to appear in April.
Two other members of the group targeted by the prosecution could not be identified.
Asked by AFP, the Paris prosecutor's office did not comment.
Me Yaël Scemama, who defends the Licra in this case with Me Edouard Cahn, welcomed the report and the trial which illustrate “a desire (…) to see this case go to the end.
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