The lawyer for the young woman injured announced that a complaint would be filed for voluntary violence having led to mutilation by person depositary of the public authority.
MO12345LEMONDE With AFP
A 26-year-old Franco-Spanish engineer, who took photos during the Parisian demonstration Thursday, January 19 against pension reform, had to be amputated after a stroke of a baton of a Policeman, learned the agency France-Presse (AFP) Sunday from his lawyer. M e Lucie Simon also announces that she would file a complaint for voluntary violence which led to mutilation by person depositary of the public authority, she added to AFP, confirming a Liberation information .
“It is a criminal qualification, we are not in a state of self -defense [of the police] or necessity, I want as proof the images we have and the fact that [the engineer ] was not arrested later, “said M e simon. His client, who lives in Guadeloupe, “is still in shock and does not stop asking why [he was injured].” “He did not represent a danger, he felt a misunderstanding, a shock and an anger, Because he will undergo irreversible consequences “, underlined M e simon.
” a gesture that borders on sadism “
Sur des clichés circulant sur les réseaux sociaux et des vidéos diffusées notamment par BFM-TV et Ab7 media , we see a police officer giving a baton to the crotch of a man on the ground, who holds a camera in one hand, then start again. The man had been thrown on the ground by another police officer, according to his story. “It is such a strong blow that we had to amputate a testicle to him. An extremely violent and free gesture which borders on sadism,” said the engineer’s lawyer, who is still hospitalized. The scene took place at the time of clashes between demonstrators and the police, near the Place de la Bastille, with projectile jets and use of tear gas.
“The prefect of police asked the director of public order and traffic to the exact circumstances of the reported incident are clarified,” the police prefecture said. The facts occurred, according to the latter, “in a context of extreme violence and in the context of a police maneuver to challenge violent individuals”. The demonstration had gathered in Paris 80,000 people, according to the Ministry of the Interior; 400,000, according to the CGT.