The prefect of police had seized the General Inspectorate of the National Police after the publication of the video on social networks on Tuesday.
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The young man involved in a fight with a plainclothes policeman in the lobby of a building in Blanc-Mesnil (Seine-Saint-Denis) is complaining, franceinfo learned Thursday April 21 from his lawyer, Yassine Bouzrou. On April 19, a video shot in Blanc-Mesnil showed a man, presented as a policeman, struggling with a young person in the lobby of a building. The entrance to the building was guarded by several people, including one with handcuffs on his belt and LBD on his hand, to prevent people from entering.
After the publication of this video, the prefect of police seized the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) “for the purpose of establishing the circumstances in which the facts shown occurred”. For the moment, the precise context of the facts is not known.