Two emergency police officers appeared in the early evening in front of the Rennes tribunal de grande instance on Tuesday for house-breaking and aggravated violence in the line of duty, an AFP correspondent said. These two police officers in uniform are accused of having entered at around 1:30 am, on the night of November 8th to 9th, at the home of a family in Rennes when they did not have a mandate.
An identity check that goes wrong
One of them made use of his tear gas canister on the inhabitants of the places who filmed the scene whose images were projected to the audience. They, absent at the hearing, filed a complaint and the public prosecutor's office seized the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN). The police explained that they found suspicious street behavior of an 18-year-old male they followed before conducting an identity check in a garden that turned out to be the garden of the family home. The young man called "help" because one of the police officers "strangled him", he explained in his testimony. The father then went out and both of them then took refuge in the house where the police pursued them.
The prosecutor referred to police officers "who lost their temper". "The necessary assistance that justice owes the police stops when there is a breach of trust," said the magistrate. The prosecution requested for one of the two police officers six months suspended sentence and a withdrawal of authorization to carry a weapon for a period of six months also. For the second defendant, the prosecutor requested a three-month suspended prison sentence. The case was put under advisement on September 3rd.