The facts date back to 2019. The prosecution had denounced “particularly foul racist remarks”. The police officers involved have since been dismissed.
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Five former police officers were sentenced by the police court of Evreux (Eure), Friday, November 5, to fines ranging from 150 to 1,000 euros, for racist remarks that targeted a black ex-colleague in a WhatsApp discussion group in 2019. The case began after the complaint in Rouen, in December 2019, of a black police officer against six of his colleagues. He had discovered that he was the target of racist comments on WhatsApp. On this message, the police had repeatedly called him “Negro” which does “anything because he’s black”.
In its judgment, the Evreux police court found the five defendants guilty “acts of non-public racist insults “, said the prosecutor of the Republic of Evreux Dominique Puechmaille.
Two of the agents were sentenced to fines of 1,000 euros, two others to fines of 400 and 150 euros, and a fifth accused of a fine of 1,000 euros, including 500 euros suspended, said the prosecutor. The prosecution had requested up to 1,000 euros firm, especially against the one he considered “the ideologue” of the group, at the hearing in Evreux on September 3.
Evoking a “atypical procedure before a police court” with “particularly foul racist remarks”, the prosecution recalled at the trial that “the police officer must be the guarantor of the values of the rule of law, in particular the equality of citizens”, stressing that he was not “no question of putting the police on trial.” Following this case, in 2020, the five police officers, who worked in Rouen, were dismissed by the Ministry of the Interior, and are therefore no longer part of the national police.