2023-08-03 06:52:43
Hedi R. was hit by the firing of a police Flash-Ball and beaten by police officers during the evening riot, in Marseilles, on the night of July 1 to 2, without having been part of the rioters. Here, July 9, 2023. SPEICH FREDERIC / MAXPPP
Of the fifteen pages of an indictment as neutral as it is implacable, the list of injuries suffered by Hedi R., 22, on the night of July 1 to 2 in Marseille, occupies nearly three. The document, which The world was able to consult, was written by the prosecution of Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône) while two police officers implicated for this violence request, Thursday August 3, the lifting of his detention for one, of its judicial review for the other. The Crown opposes both.
“Serious head trauma”facial fracture, hematomas, various abrasions, haemorrhages: when he arrived at the emergency room of La Timone hospital at 2:15 a.m., the young man was ” in pieces “, to use a local expression. Intubated and sedated, he was operated on urgently, “in neurosurgery to perform a decompressive craniectomy”. In other words, to remove part of his skull in order to lower the pressure due to a hemorrhage, probably caused by a rubber bullet. Since then, the young man has celebrated his 22nd birthday on July 9 with half his skull missing – his image, after several interviews, has toured France. His spirit is also affected. Two medical certificates, written on July 5 and 6, 2023 by doctors in the intensive care unit, add “acute stress syndrome” to this inventory of physical injuries.
What happened that night from July 1 to 2 when Marseille was on fire? Thousands of rioters, nearly five hundred businesses devastated or looted during the violent clashes which followed the death of Nahel M., 17, shot dead by police fire after refusing to comply in Nanterre on June 27 . In two documents of about fifteen pages, the justice traced, with the help of testimonies, hearings and thanks to the exploitation of video surveillance, the course of the facts which are worth to four police officers of the anticrime brigades (BAC) Center and South of the city to be indicted for intentional violence in a meeting by persons holding public authority, and one of them to be imprisoned in the prison of Luynes (Bouches-du-Rhône ) since July 21.
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Punches and kicks
The friend who accompanies Hedi, Lilian P., is the first to deliver the story of the evening, from the end of the afternoon of July 2. The young man, a trained hairdresser who does extras in the restaurant business, confesses a “form of ‘curiosity’ to justify his presence in Marseille, adding that he used to go out in the evening with Hedi”. Around 2 o’clock in the morning, Hedi calls him: does he want to join him to go to Marseilles? He nods, takes his car and the station “near Joliette” to find his friend on the Old Port. A few minutes later, as they were walking down the street, they met five men at the corner of rue d’Italie and rue du Commandant-Imhaus, in the city’s 6th arrondissement. At that moment, he says, he hears a voice call out to them: “Where are you going? »
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