The victim, struck on the ground by a police officer, had to undergo the removal of a testicle. His lawyer announces the filing of a complaint for voluntary violence.
by Antoine Albertini
A 26-year-old Franco-Spanish engineer, amateur photographer, was seriously injured during the Parisian demonstration against the pension reform, Thursday, January 19, revealed Liberation on Sunday January 22. The young man, who was close to clashes between police forces and certain demonstrators, had to undergo the removal of a testicle after receiving a baton while he was on the ground, immediately after a Police charge, and when he presented no danger for the police – he was, moreover, not arrested.
His lawyer, M e Lucie Simon, said that she will file a complaint with the constitution of civil party for “voluntary violence which led to mutilation, by person depositary of the public authority” , facts that are a criminal qualification. While a first assessment reported 44 arrests in the Paris procession following quickly circumscribed incidents, without any injured injured, images broadcast two days after the facts, in particular by AB7 media and BFM-TV, and largely taken up Since then on social networks, have helped to increase this first count.
“Purely free violence”
The video sequence, as well as photos that are extracted from it, show the victim on the ground, on the back, his visible camera. Then, a police officer who had exceeded her during the charge, returns to his steps to assemble a baton that reached him in the crotch before returning to his colleagues, positioned a few meters further. “Nothing justifies such an act which deliberately targets an extremely sensitive zone of the human body, believes M e Lucie Simon, the lawyer of the injured. The policeman returns to him and strikes him while he Find on the ground, it is an act of purely free violence. “
In another video sequence, shot on the side opposite the first, another police officer kicks in the young man’s belly while he is already on the ground, a second before the intervention of the second, which delivers him the baton. According to our information, the latter is a member of an intervention company, which depends on the management of the public order and the circulation of the Paris police headquarters, engaged during an eventful sequence Near the Place de la Bastille, on the course of the event, shortly after 4 p.m.
An internal investigation was opened at the request of the prefect of police, Laurent Nunez, so that “the circumstances of the intervention of the police author of the coup. Asked about BFM-TV, government spokesperson Olivier Véran stressed “the need to understand the conditions in which this intervention was carried out”, evoking “a sequence that is heavy for the police which were, For some of them, attacked “. “Nothing justifies to be operated in this way, to find yourself injured,” he added.