A police officer is accused of having struck an already injured man for no reason

This is a new case for the IGPN, the police force.

A young man has filed a complaint against a police officer whom he accuses of having hit him for no reason and despite apparent injuries linked to a car accident, according to the Paris prosecutor's office and the young man's lawyer contacted by

, confirming information from

.

An investigation was opened on July 16 for violence with a weapon by a person holding public authority resulting in incapacity for work (ITT) less than or equal to eight days, said the prosecution.

The investigations were entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN).

The police headquarters said it had launched an administrative investigation into this official.

Police charge the small group that did not move

The facts, recounted by the 24-year-old young man to

, took place on the evening of July 13 in the 19th arrondissement of Paris.

Wearing a neck brace and his left arm in a sling after a car accident several weeks earlier, the plaintiff, whom

calls Sofiane, joined a group of friends downstairs from his mother's home in the evening.

The atmosphere is festive on the eve of the national holiday and young people throw firecrackers in the street.

Without reason, according to the young man, police officers point the group "with their flashball" and one of them throws a tear gas grenade.

Having received the order not to move, Sofiane and her friends remain seated on a bench.

But a few minutes later, other police charge the small group.

“No word or gesture of provocation towards the policeman”

As Sofiane yells at the police to stop because he is injured, an official insults him and hits him with his truncheon in the face and on his injured shoulder, according to the young man.

Brought to the emergency room by relatives, he suffered in particular from a broken jaw and an open lip, reports the online newspaper.

The young man, who laments that he and his friends have been "clubbed for free", was auditioned on July 18.

"My client has an irreproachable profile, his criminal record is clean and he is unknown to the police," said his lawyer to AFP Master Avi Bitton.

“The witnesses to the facts, some of whom were heard by the IGPN, attest that Sofiane had no word or gesture of provocation towards the policeman”, adds Maître Bitton, who is surprised at “the slowness with which the 'IGPN wanted to have Sofiane examined'.

Summoned to the forensic unit initially on August 3, three weeks after the events, the young man was finally examined on Saturday.

“The bruises, the swollen lip, all of that would have disappeared on August 3.

A member of my office had to go to the forensic units to request a closer examination.

Normally when the facts are recent, the police send the victim to the UMJ immediately.

When I called the IGPN they told me “there was no room before” and when we went to the UMJ at the Hôtel-Dieu they found us a room for Saturday July 23” , is surprised with

master Avi Bitton.

A seven-day ITT was issued to him, his lawyer said.

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