A senior official of the Paris police headquarters, accused of having assaulted a cyclist in mid-March while riding an unmarked motorcycle, has been targeted since Monday by an investigation by the IGPN, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Thursday. , confirming information from Mediapart. The police officer in question is the assistant to the director of public order and traffic (DOPC) of the PP, Alexis Marsan, for his part confirmed a source close to the file.
The facts date back to March 16. As he travels on a quay of the Seine in a lane reserved for buses and bicycles, the cyclist says that a motorcyclist, without any distinctive sign, comes up to him. “I told him ‘it’s a lane for buses and bicycles, not for motorcycles'”, reports the cyclist in a complaint filed the same day at the police station of the 5th and 6th arrondissements, and consulted by AFP. “I’m from the police, you stop! “, would have retorted the biker, before pushing him with his arm as they ride side by side.
The senior executive in turn files a complaint
The cyclist, part of the Public Service, then stumbles against the sidewalk and falls heavily. His multiple dermabrasions and hematomas earned him ten days of ITT. On getting up, he memorizes the motorcycle’s license plate and learns, when he lodges a complaint, that it does indeed belong to a police officer from the police headquarters.
His complaint, “for facts which he describes as violence by a person holding public authority”, is first sent to the Service for the judicial treatment of accidents (STJA), according to the Paris prosecutor’s office. The cyclist, reconvened on April 27 at the STJA to be auditioned, reiterates his story and files a new complaint. The next day, Alexis Marsan in turn filed a complaint “for facts which he describes as endangering the lives of others and refusing to comply”, indicates the prosecution, without giving details.
Requested by AFP, the police headquarters assures that “Mr. Marsan wrote a report the same day of the events and sent it to his superiors the same day”. Since Monday, the investigation into the facts denounced by the cyclist has been in the hands of the IGPN, after a report made by the latter on the platform of the “police of the police”. Alexis Marsan’s complaint is still “under analysis”, indicates the prosecution.