A second complaint was filed Friday, May 20 at the Évry prosecutor’s office by one of the three young people arrested in early May in Essonne, in Athis-Mons, franceinfo learned on Saturday from the complainant’s lawyer, Maître Arié Alimi. He is a friend of Mahedine Tazamoucht, who had testified and revealed the facts to franceinfo on May 17. This second complaint was filed for “aggravated violence resulting in indeterminate incapacity for work to date, committed by persons holding public authority in the course of their duties, in meetings and with the use of weapons”.
On the night of May 9 to 10, Mahedine Tazamoucht spent the evening with two friends, including the new plaintiff, Elyes M., listening to music and having drinks in the car of one of them on a parking lot close to his home. He returns home around 3 a.m. but, not finding his keys, returns to the car. In the meantime, three police officers arrived and checked his friends. Mahedine is looking for his keychain under the back seat when, according to him, the first salvo of violence intervenes. Officials handcuffed him to the ground, took off his shoes and sprayed tear gas in his face, without telling him to check, according to his testimony.
This is when Elyes M., 22, claims to have intervened. In his complaint, which franceinfo was able to consult, he explains that he “verbally inveighed against the police officers for the reasons for this outburst of violence against his friend”specifying “that no act of violence or threats” had been brought against the police who nevertheless called for reinforcements. Elyes M. denounces the use of tear gas against him and explains that he was put on the ground by the agents of the BAC who arrived as reinforcements, “estimated at a dozen”. “Falling to the ground, Mr. Elyes M. was kicked several times by BAC officials”, details the complaint. The young man also receives punches in the face, once handcuffed, he says.
Taken to the Juvisy-sur-Orge police station, he was placed in a cell, then taken to the Corbeil-Essonnes hospital, where a first medical certificate “of assault and battery assigns him a total incapacity for work (ITT) of two days”. A week after his release from police custody, on May 17, a psychiatrist grants him a ten-day ITT subject to aggravation, as part of “post-traumatic stress”. Still according to the complaint, Elyes M. claims to have heard the “screams” of Mahedine that evening at the Juvisy-sur-Orge police station. The IGPN was seized in connection with this case.