A company manager of Chinese origin has filed a complaint for violence and discrimination against police officers who intervened on her premises as part of a commercial dispute, a source close to the case announced on Saturday, confirmed by the plaintiff’s lawyer. . The complaint, consulted by AFP, was filed with the Paris prosecutor’s office for aggravated intentional violence, attack on individual freedoms and discrimination by a person holding public authority.
On January 22, the complainant was with clients at her support, concierge and translation company, among others, when four police officers from the 8th arrondissement police station arrived. They had been called by the manager of another company to which it sublets its premises and with whom relations “have deteriorated” since September 2023, it is specified in the complaint.
A witness “violently extracted from the premises”
The four police officers “appeared to discriminate against” the complainant, “telling her that she would not have the right to be on the premises of her company and that she would be ‘without papers'”, it is said. related. One of them “instructed her that she ‘could go back to her country’ if she was not satisfied with being here.” “While she was perfectly calm and there was nothing to justify it, she was violently grabbed by the arm” by a police officer, who allegedly gave her “a violent arm lock” by “positioning her on her knees on the ground” against a couch.
“My client, whose husband is a police commander, would never have imagined being treated like this by police officers,” Me Yassine Bouzrou responded to AFP. “She believes she was assaulted and treated in this way because she is Chinese and she relies on the comments made by the police to assert this,” he added. A witness to the scene “having expressed her concern about the behavior of the police officers, was also the victim of violence and violently removed from the premises”, it is denounced in the document.
“There are videos that show part of the scene,” said another close source. The manager, “deeply shocked” by the facts, “presents a definite emotional shock” and “a significant hematoma” on her arm. No offense was accused of him by the police, it is recalled in the complaint.