2023-07-23 23:26:00
Since Friday, a police officer has been imprisoned as part of an investigation into police violence. The director general of the police, Frédéric Veaux, demands his release.
by LC, with AFP Four police officers are indicted for violence in a meeting by a person holding public authority, during the riots in Marseilles at the beginning of July. © NASEER TURKMANI / ANADOLU AGENCY / Anadolu Agency via AFP Posted on 07/23/2023 at 11:26 p.m.
Following an investigation into police violence committed on the sidelines of the riots that took place in early July in Marseille, a police officer has been imprisoned since Friday July 21. This incarceration has also provoked the indignation of the unions and Frédéric Veaux. The Director General of the National Police (DGPN) has announced that he wants the release of his Marseille colleague. In addition to the latter, three other BAC police officers were indicted and placed under judicial supervision. They are notably accused of violence in meetings by a person holding public authority.
“Knowledge in prison keeps me awake,” says Frédéric Veaux, in an interview posted on the newspaper website The Parisian. “In general, I consider that before a possible trial, a police officer has no place in prison, even if he may have committed serious faults or errors in the context of his work,” he adds. “The emotion and the anger passed, it is necessary to give the technical and legal means so that this police officer finds freedom”.
Sick leave as a protest
The victim, Hedi, a 21-year-old young man injured and hospitalized on the night of July 1 to 2, explained that he was beaten by a group of four to five people he had identified as police officers from the anti-crime squad, after being shot in the temple by LBD. The police chief traveled to Marseille on Saturday to meet the staff who were very upset against this placement in pre-trial detention of their colleague.
According to a union source, several hundred Marseille police officers went on sick leave. Others responded to the call of the SGP Police Unit union and put themselves in “code 562”, a police jargon which means that they only assume emergency and essential missions.
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