The Brigadier and the Peacekeeper Members of the Facebook Group “TN Rabiot Official Police” were cited to appear for “public insult racially” and “public provocation to discrimination”.
Le Monde with AFP
A brigadier and a peacekeeper will be judged on 20 April to the Paris court court, suspected of having published racist messages in a Facebook group called “TN Rabiot Official Police”, learned the France-Presse agency (AFP) Saturday, February 26 close source.
At the end of December, the parquet of Paris cited to appear these two members of the Facebook group “TN Rabiot Official Police”, revealed by Streetpress in June 2020 , for” Injure public racially “, and the second also for” public provocation to discrimination “.
On June 4, 2020, the Streetpress website revealed that, on this Facebook group of 7,500 members for the law enforcement, “hundreds” of racist, sexist and homophobic messages, as well as calls to murder.
Two police officers not prosecuted, two others not identified
In the face of indignation, the Minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner, had seized justice. According to elements of the survey open by the parquet of Paris, Fabrice D.-P .., 50-year-old peacekeeper, is blamed for writing: “Always the same shit who brave all prohibitions in this country. The stormy “Gauchiassees” and immigrants who do not do 1/10 e of that at home. “He recognized in front of the investigators a reaction” under the anger ” but challenges any racist or discriminatory character.
Patrick C., Brigadier 44, is seen, reproach this comment: “This country has really become the trash of the world … full ass really, and one wonders why the French no longer support immigration ” He conceded about the words that “do not fly high”, “excessive” or “insulting”, but not criminal.
Two other policemen heard during the survey are not cited in April. They could not be identified. Solicited by AFP, the parquet of Paris did not commented.
M e Yaël SEMAMAMA, who defends the LICRA in this file, with M e Edouard Cahn, greeted the reporting and the trial, which illustrate “a will ( …) to see this case go all the way. “