an investigation opened for new suspicions of police violence in the judicial court

The Paris police prefect opened an administrative investigation on Friday March 10, concerning suspicions of violence committed by police officers stationed at the capital’s judicial court against people detained at the depot, franceinfo learned from concordant sources, confirming information from the Streetpress website.

According to information collected by franceinfo, at least two facts were reported by police officers to their superiors, involving several colleagues working at night at the court depot, where people at the end of police custody await their presentation to a judge. instruction or their immediate appearance.

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Provoke then “calm” the detainees

One report concerns police beatings of a man in a cell. The other refers to a disabled person, jostled at the time of his search. According to the testimonies collected by the police hierarchy, a small group of police officers had taken to humiliating certain detainees, in particular foreigners, and provoking them by preventing them from sleeping, for example, until they waited for some to rebel. to go to “calm”according to a person familiar with the matter.

Contacted by franceinfo, the prefecture of police announces that beyond the internal investigation, the prefect of police has “reported facts likely to have a criminal qualification to the Paris prosecutor’s office”in accordance with Article 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

In 2018 and 2019, a police officer then stationed at the court depot, Chief Sergeant Amar benmohamedhad already implicated several of his colleagues by denouncing racist insults, thefts and abuse.