The 51-year-old teacher was operated on for a fractured tibia and fibula, injuries that led to 45 days of total work interruption.
An investigation into intentional violence was opened by the “police of the police” after the complaint of a teacher, AFP learned on Wednesday July 19 from his lawyer and the Bobigny prosecutor’s office. She accuses two police officers of having assaulted her in Villetaneuse (Seine-Saint-Denis) on June 30, in a context of urban violence.
Shortly before 3 a.m., this school teacher was returning home by bike, after an evening with friends, when she stopped in the town hall square where a truck was on fire. Two police officers walked towards her, ordering her to leave the premises, she testified to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), according to the minutes of her complaint consulted by AFP.
Operation for fracture, and 45 days of ITT
The 51-year-old teacher was then pushed to the ground by one of the officers and then handcuffed. “I’m on the ground, I have a weight on my back and my leg hurts, hurts, hurts”, testified the 50-year-old in her complaint. Transported to the hospital, she was operated on for a fracture of the tibia and fibula, injuries that resulted in 45 days of ITT (total interruption of work), according to the complaint. “She suffered violence on the ground by the two police officers”said his lawyer Arie Alimi. “Other police officers then intervened to put an end to the violence”he added, lamenting “an action of absolute savagery”.
According to the police version, during a verbal altercation, the teacher allegedly yelled insults at the officers and it was during her arrest, struggling, that she fell off her bicycle, reported a source close to the police. case.
The CGT Educ’action 93 union, of which the professor is a member, denounced “this unbearable violence” (…) symptoms of police impunity, ultra-aggressive behavior towards the population, in particular that of working-class neighborhoods”.