Hauts-de-Seine: two police officers indicted for brutalizing a colleague

Two peacekeepers from the Vanves police station, in the Hauts-de-Seine, were indicted for brutalizing a colleague and accusing a third of her last year, we learned Thursday from the public prosecutor's office of Nanterre, confirming information from

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The facts date back to May 16, 2020. On that day, these two police officers unnecessarily handcuff a colleague and place her in a cell.

They injured her wrist, causing a temporary interruption of work (ITT) of several weeks, detailed a source familiar with the matter.

The next day, to cover themselves, they write a false report implicating a person in custody in the police station.

Prosecuted for violence and rebellion by the Nanterre public prosecutor's office, this person was then released on October 16, 2020 by the Nanterre criminal court, according to this source.

Placed under judicial supervision

A week before this judgment, a judicial investigation was opened by the Nanterre prosecutor's office against the two police officers, after an investigation by the IGPN, the "police police".

The two agents are prosecuted for "violence in meetings followed by an ITT of more than 8 days" and for "forgery in public writing and violence without ITT committed by a person holding public authority".

Placed under judicial control, they are prohibited from going to the Vanves police station and coming into contact with the victims, according to the prosecution, specifying that only one is prohibited from exercising.

This investigation carried out by the IGPN noted other violence committed by the two police officers on colleagues, in particular in 2019. For these facts, one of the two police officers was also indicted "for non-public insult of a racial nature" and for "violence without ITT committed with a weapon" between 2019 and May 2020.

"A form of pressure on their colleagues"

According to the words of a judicial source quoted by

and confirmed to AFP, the investigation revealed that "two peacekeepers made the law a little and exerted a form of pressure on their colleagues with incessant jokes" , forcing them "to operate in their own way during checks", that is to say in a "not very professional way, by pushing the people checked".

Since June 11, the two police officers have been suspended at the request of the hierarchy, the Paris police headquarters told AFP.