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VIDEO – After the broadcast on Thursday of a video showing a police officer hitting an accused who refused to return to his cell on the grounds of the new Paris court, two investigations were opened. The probationary official was suspended and placed in police custody. The latter was extended, this Friday, 24 hours.
The Paris prosecutor's office said it prolonged, Friday evening, the police custody trainee who was filmed hitting a prisoner in the precincts High Court of Paris. This intern officer was suspended on Thursday as a precautionary measure by the Interior Minister Gerard Collomb, and placed in custody in the premises of the Inspectorate General of the National Police, the "police police", a few hours after revelation of this video on the site site Là-bas.org.
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CCTV images, with a duration of nearly six minutes, show this handcuffed peacekeeper then hitting a man who was to be tried in court for theft. The Paris public prosecutor's office opened two investigations entrusted to the IGPN: a first for "violence by a person in charge of public authority" and "false", in which the police officer is accused, and a second for " fraudulent introduction into an automated data system "due to the extraction and dissemination of CCTV images. The policeman's custody was extended for a period of 24 hours
"Unacceptable behavior"
Thursday, Gerard Collomb condemned "with the greatest firmness this inadmissible behavior which comes to harm the image of the security forces, "the ministry said. The facts took place on June 9 according to the website La-bas.org, which confirmed a source close to the investigation. The video shows a man who seems to refuse to return to his cell. After about 45 seconds of hand-to-hand combat, the peacekeeper escorts him to the ground and handcuffs him. He brings him back to his cell violently, before kicking him while he is on the ground and handcuffed, under the gaze of two of his colleagues who have come in as reinforcements and who then remove the policeman.
According to the site, created in 2015 after the stop of "Là-bas si j'y suis", a famous show broadcast on France Inter between 1989 and 2014, it is a policeman who transmitted them the video to denounce these actions. According to the recently released IGPN report for 2017, investigations into police-reported acts of violence increased by 6% over 2016.
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