Accused of sexual and moral harassment, a 34-year-old brigadier was sentenced on Thursday by the Créteil court to eight months in prison, suspended.

He attacked three policewomen who worked with him at the police station in Champigny-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne).

This policeman, who now works in Seine-et-Marne, was also sentenced to compulsory psychiatric care and a ban on contact with his victims.

He will also have to take a course in the fight against sexism.

He will be able to continue to work as a policeman, having not been sentenced to a ban on exercising his profession.

Rumors about their private life

He was on trial for making repeated advances of a sexual nature to four of his subordinates and then harassing them when they pushed him away.

The man was found guilty of sexual harassment against three of the victims, moral harassment against two of them, and was acquitted of the charges by the fourth complainant.

According to the statements of these women read during the hearing in June, Jonathan L., dismissed, called them "dirty whore" in particular in front of colleagues and "attributed to them unproven professional shortcomings".

At the bar, these women also recounted inappropriate thoughts about their spouse or lover, including “trash” rumors peddled about their sex life.

Humor, according to the defendant

The policeman had defended himself by putting forward a “a little particular humor”.

He also described a climate of schoolboy camaraderie, "in a police environment (which) is our second family", where officials rub shoulders outside of working hours.

“It was important for us that there be a sentence pronounced against him, regardless of the quantum, so that we recognize that we are not liars”, reacted one of the victims at the end of the deliberation.

During the hearing, the prosecution had requested a five-month suspended prison sentence against the police officer, who was not present Thursday at the Créteil court to listen to the deliberations.

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  • Creteil

  • Paris

  • Ile-de-France

  • Harassment

  • Policeman

  • Conviction

  • Justice