2023-05-26 21:19:43
The policeman accused of treated as a “bitch” A woman who had filed a complaint for sexual assault will appear on July 3 before the police court, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday, confirming information from Mediapart. He will be tried for non-public insult, because of sex, according to this source. He risks a maximum fine of 1,500 euros.
In February 2022, the then 34-year-old young woman had filed a first complaint in a Paris police station for sexual assault while intoxicated, leading to the opening of an investigation, revealed by Mediapart. A police officer had left a message on her answering machine asking her to complete her complaint.
Believing to have hung up, we heard the official joke, then add: “She really is a whore. (…) Damn, she refuses the confrontation and moreover the whore. As if by chance. In fact it was just to break his balls, I’m sure. (…) Whore, big whore”, he concluded, before the handset was hung up.
The procedure filed for the first time
The prosecution had closed the procedure because “the remarks had been made without the intention of bringing them to the knowledge of the complainant” but, after a new complaint, the police officer was indicted on January 3. In mid-April, the prosecution finally asked for a trial before the police court for non-public insult on the grounds of sex, requisitions followed by the investigating judge. Asked by AFP, the policeman’s lawyer, who admitted the facts during the investigation, was unable to comment on Friday.
“July 3 will be an important date to examine the reality of the care of victims of gender-based and sexual violence a thousand miles from the announcements of Ms. Schiappa and Mr. Darmanin”, for his part declared Me Arie Alimi, attorney for the plaintiff. “The latter once again lied by claiming that the police officer would be dismissed. He simply works in another police station, ”he added.
At the time, the Home Secretary felt that the policeman had “no longer his place” in the profession and had assured that he “will not be reinstated in the police”. This case had given rise to numerous criticisms of the police’s treatment of victims of sexual violence.
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