According to information from franceinfo, two demonstrators will file a complaint after their arrest by BRAV-M police officers. One files a complaint in particular for “sexual assault”.
Two demonstrators decided to file a complaint after their arrest by BRAV-M police officers on Monday March 20 in Paris, according to information from franceinfo this Sunday March 26. In a recording to which franceinfo had access, we hear police officers from this brigade insulting and humiliating seven demonstrators and even hitting one of them. The Paris prosecutor’s office has for its part opened a judicial investigation, while the Paris police prefect has seized the IGPN, the police force on this case. One of the two demonstrators, Souleymane, notably lodged a complaint for “sexual assault” And “threatens to commit the crime of rape” against one of the policemen.
Souleymane is one of these two demonstrators who will file a complaint on Monday morning with the Paris prosecutor’s office. Complain to him for “sexual assault”, “threatens to commit the crime of rape”, “violation of individual freedoms”For “violence”, “false in public writing” with the aggravating circumstances that these acts were committed by police officers and that the latter acted thus because of his skin color. Souleymane was the only black man in the group of seven people arrested on Monday.
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In his testimony collected exclusively by franceinfo this Saturday, this 23-year-old Chadian said at first that he did not want to file a complaint. “by fear”. He explains today why he changed his mind: “I want to show that I was taken to task, that the police had something against me”explains Souleymane. “Probably because of my skin color”, he adds. The fact that the recording was broadcast also counted in his choice, assures this protester.
In the recording, Souleymane is the protester most attacked by the BRAV-M police. Insulted and beaten, this demonstrator also denounces a sexual assault on the part of a civil servant. A sequence that occurs before recording during palpations. Souleymane assures that the policeman has it “caught by sex”. In the recording, the official is heard saying “You know, I can come and sleep with you if you want… -Well, here we go”, quickly answers the young man. The policeman picks up “…and it’s the first one who has a hard-on who buggers the other”continues the policeman.
Another protester decided to file a complaint. This is Salomé, a 22-year-old social science student. It was she who decided to broadcast the recording made by another protester. Salomé has decided to file a complaint for “attack on individual liberty”, “violence in meetings by a person holding public authority and complicity”, “forgery in public writing and complicity in forgery in public writing”. Salome assures that the police wrote false reports to justify the arrests. The two complaints, which are against X, against the Paris police chief and against the Paris prosecutor, will be sent this Monday morning to the Paris prosecutor’s office, assures franceinfo the lawyer for the two demonstrators, Arié Alimi.
The prefect of police and the prosecutor targeted as accomplices by instigation
The latter specifies that in these complaints, “the prefect of police Mr. Laurent Nunez and the prosecutor of the Republic of Paris, Mrs. Laure Beccuau, are targeted as accomplices by instigation”. He adds : “It is because they are both targeted that the Attorney General was immediately asked for a change of scenery to a different jurisdiction.”
Arié Alimi indeed points the finger at a “hierarchical device” and not just the BRAV-M agents implicated. According to him, “the question is not only individual”. There is “Obviously these BRAV-Ms who are committing terrible acts everywhere and which must be dissolved quickly, but there are also the instructions which are given and which are revealing today of an executive who is on the other side of the law, who violates it”. Arie Alimi therefore asserts that we “can speak of a delinquent executive in the demonstrations but also for example in Sainte-Soline [où des affrontements ont éclaté samedi entre forces de l’ordre et opposants au projet des méga-bassines].”