Three police officers were given suspended prison sentences on Wednesday by the Nancy Criminal Court for ignoring a phone call denouncing violence inflicted on a young mental defective in 2015 in Verdun, Meuse.
Conviction absent from the criminal record
A 24-year-old security assistant was sentenced to two months in prison and two peacekeepers, aged 42 and 44, to a one-year suspended prison sentence. The two 40-year-olds will also have to pay 5,000 euros in damages to the victim, who became a civil party. The conviction of the three policemen, prosecuted for "non-assistance to person in danger", will not be registered in the bulletin n ° 2 of their criminal record, specified the court.
Believing that they had failed in their mission, the prosecutor had required three months of reprieve from the security assistant and six months suspended for the two peacekeepers.
Rape, violence and humiliation by six people
One evening in March 2015, a man, remorseful, had telephoned the police station in Verdun to denounce the rape, violence and humiliation he was inflicting with five other people to a young mental defective, then 20 years old. The three police officers did not take seriously the interlocutor, who had yet delivered the names of the attackers and the victim, the address of the place of the facts and the details of the abuse.
The six perpetrators of violence, three men and three women, between the ages of 22 and 30, were sentenced in February to sentences ranging from 7 years in prison to 18 years' imprisonment by the Meurthe-et-Asseur Assize Court. Moselle. The victim, who had left her host family for an apprenticeship contract in Verdun, had met a couple of women who had sequestered her and extorted her money.
They had claimed a robbery to inflict, in retaliation, a multitude of blows and humiliations with the help of a band of friends. For thirteen days they had tied her up, beaten her, raped her, burned her, deprived of food, hygiene, and care. Twice, the young woman, threatened with death, had been forced to immerse herself in the icy water of the Meuse. Some beatings were photographed and filmed.