Val-de-Marne: a policeman sentenced for violence against a father

Europe 1 with AFP 3:56 p.m., June 01, 2022

A police officer was convicted of violence against a father after the latter's son was taken into custody in August 2019 in a Kremlin-Bicêtre police station (Val-de-Marne), in the Paris suburbs.

On March 30, the Créteil prosecutor's office requested the release of this policeman and six months' suspended imprisonment for the father, who appeared the same day for contempt and rebellion.

The father of the family and the policeman were each sentenced to a fine of 1,500 euros.

The father of the family was sentenced for spitting on the police officer, insulting him and rebelling.

The Créteil court condemned the policeman for violence against the father, but acquitted him of the violence against the minor. 

"A series of punches"

On August 1, 2019, Yann G. came to the Kremlin-Bicêtre police station to pick up his son, 15 years old at the time, who was coming out of police custody.

According to this father, with a clean criminal record, the police first addressed them with several contemptuous remarks.

He then recounts at the bar "a series of punches", "kicks" to his son, "sitting on the ground without protection" and immobilized by several officials.

The policeman says he had to intervene in the face of a very agitated father, who refused to leave the police station.

In front of the criminal court, he described "an exchange of blows in the melee".

The blow given to Yann G.?

Not voluntary: he was trying to protect himself from being spat in the face.

During the proceedings, the prosecutor had declared that she had "no element which (her) allows her to say that (the son) was the victim of violence on the part of the police".

In her submissions, she had castigated the "totally inappropriate attitude" and the "outrageous remarks" of the father of the family, at the police station and in court, noting that his statements and those of his son had changed several times.