A police officer was sentenced, this Thursday, by the Bobigny criminal court (Seine-Saint-Denis) to six months suspended prison sentence and three months professional ban for having, in 2022, beaten a young man who was was in a police custody cell at the Sevran police station.
“You completely slipped up in the face of a situation that you could completely control,” asserted prosecutor Loïc Pageot while questioning the agent, now 25 years old.
The police officer enters the cell to beat the young person arrested
It was because he could not stand the insults thrown by the young man, after a quarrel over the meal offered, that the police officer entered the cell with one of his colleagues and knocked several times. repeated the young person arrested.
“The cell is closed: you just have to let the individual vociferate,” criticized Loïc Pageot, requesting a six-month suspended prison sentence and a ten-month ban on practicing.
The scene filmed by video surveillance
On the afternoon of June 21, 2022, the victim, then aged 19, was arrested at a drug trafficking point and brought to the Sevran police station, suspected of selling drugs.
Five hours later, the young man was beaten in a police custody cell, a scene captured by the police station’s video surveillance.
Broadcast in the courtroom, the black and white images are of poor quality but we see two police officers enter the cramped room then, in a corner, one of them delivers several volleys of blows to the victim.
Two fractured ribs
“One minute and forty minutes of significant violence”, underlines the court, following which the victim is left in the cell all evening, with a fellow inmate.
Heard by the IGPN, the latter claims to have alerted the police several times to the worrying state of health of the young man.
He was finally transported to hospital around midnight and caregivers noticed that two of his ribs were fractured, injuries causing fourteen days of total incapacity for work (ITT).
A lie in the report
In the report, which he wrote in the minutes following the violence, the police officer reported having struck the victim because she grabbed his arm. Confronted for the first time with video images by the IGPN, he finally admitted to having initiated the altercation.
“If he had not gone to the hospital, he would have been prosecuted for contempt and violence against a police officer,” points out Mr. Nabil Boudi, the victim’s lawyer.
At the hearing, the young man denied having threatened or insulted the police officer, while briefly explaining: “he only had to bring me my mushroom pasta and everything would have gone well. »