The behavior is a stain, while the police continue to communicate on their better care for victims of sexual assault… The prefect of police of Paris Didier Lallement seized the “police of the police” (IGPN) and asked for the suspension of cop recorded insulting a woman who filed a sexual assault complaint.
It all started on the night of February 4 to 5: the 34-year-old young woman filed a complaint with police officers from the police station of the 5th and 6th arrondissements of Paris for “sexual assault while intoxicated”, indicates Mediapart. A few hours later, another police officer from this police station calls him and leaves him a voice message asking him to come and complete his complaint. Except that the civil servant hangs up the wrong handset… The comments he then makes were recorded on the complainant’s answering machine.
“She refuses the confrontation, plus the whore”
We hear her joking with one of her colleagues: “I’ll call her back anyway because she must be sleeping off! He then read aloud an excerpt from the young woman’s complaint. “It does not make sense the complaint in fact,” he says.
“Ah obviously she refuses the confrontation”, he continues. “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 says again, before the handset is well hung up.
“Inadmissible remarks”
Condemning “inadmissible remarks”, the prefect of police indicated that he had “immediately seized the IGPN”, the General Inspectorate of the National Police, and “requested the suspension as a precautionary measure of the official”.
“No offensive or abusive behavior will be tolerated on the part of a police officer, vis-à-vis a victim”, adds the prefecture in its press release, recalling its “full commitment to improve the reception and the support for victims of domestic and sexual violence” in police stations.