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In Marseille, four police officers from the BAC were indicted for violence, and one of them placed in pre-trial detention. They are suspected of having seriously injured a 22-year-old young man, on the sidelines of the violence observed after Nahel’s death.
Marseille police officers waited for hours, Thursday July 20, at the foot of the courthouse in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône). Of the four police officers incriminated, one went into pre-trial detention, under the cries of support from his colleagues. The three other agents came out free, under judicial supervision with a ban on practicing, but they will not go to prison, contrary to the requisitions of the prosecution.
“They pulled me by my clothes and dragged me down an alley”
On July 2, when Marseille was shaken by a night riots, police allegedly assaulted a 22-year-old man. Accompanied by a friend, he came across plainclothes police officers from the BAC that day. He says he was shot with a flashball and beaten for no reason. His injuries are serious: coma, fractured jaw, he could even lose the use of his left eye. “They pulled me by my clothes and dragged me into an alley, they put me on my back, one of them put his knees on my legs to block them“, he assured.