More than ten years after the events, four police officers were sentenced Thursday by the Créteil court to a six-month suspended prison sentence for acts of violence dating from 2012 on a man who was trying to calm a dispute between two people, in Vincennes , in the Val-de-Marne.

This sentence, slightly higher than that demanded at the end of June by the prosecution, which had requested five months of suspended imprisonment against these former members of the Anti-Crime Brigade (BAC), now in rank or retiree.

The Créteil court found the police officers guilty of intentional violence and retained the aggravating circumstances of violence in meetings and with the use of weapons.

This conviction will not be entered in bulletin no. 2 of their criminal record.

Another of the police officers, a trainee and not belonging to the BAC in 2012, who was tried for violence against the victim's brother, was released.

Three weeks of ITT for the victim

On March 17, 2012, Brice called the police to warn them of a conflict: a friend, who had had a heated argument with his girlfriend, was threatened by a shopkeeper brandishing a knife.

He also calls his eldest, Franck.

The two brothers say they tried to manage the situation while waiting for the arrival of the police, followed by a team from the BAC as reinforcements.

Everything changed for them when one of the agents gave their friend "a punch", says Franck.

"In two seconds", he and his brother, 34 and 31, are handcuffed.

“We made sure that my fingers touched my forearms”, describes Franck again.

Medical certificates will report a bone tearing and a broken vertebra.

Twenty-one days of ITT for Franck, two for Brice.

Subsequently, the brothers were released, without legal action.

For the police, who are also accused of tonfa blows and a strangulation key, the two brothers were virulent.

One of the police officers, who is accused of having struck with a telescopic truncheon, had affirmed at the bar "not to have had the information" that the situation had already been brought under control.

He pleaded to have acted "in an emergency" thinking "to intervene for violence against a woman with a knife carrier".

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