Five municipal police officers from Nice were arrested and placed in police custody on Monday evening, told 20 minutes the public prosecutor of Nice confirming the information of Nice morning. “An investigation is underway for aggravated violence and kidnapping and has been entrusted to the departmental security”, specifies Xavier Bonhomme.
They are suspected of having kidnapped a 21-year-old from the Old Nice district, where he was arrested for tagging their vehicle, to the Vinaigrier park. According to the elements of the local daily, it was other municipal police officers who arrested the young man before bringing him back to the vandalized car. CCTV footage confirms that he was indeed changed vehicles and taken to the east of the city. According to the victim’s testimony, the police officers then punched him hard in the face.
Agents suspended “as a precaution” at the request of Christian Estrosi
The mayor of Nice “immediately asked the director general of services to suspend these agents as a precaution”, he communicated to 20 minutes. Christian Estrosi said that if the facts “were confirmed, all procedures would be initiated to obtain the dismissal of those who allegedly committed them and the city would file a civil action”.
The elected official added that he would not let the “image” of his municipal police be “tarnished by unspeakable individual behavior and for which sanctions without weakness will be taken according to the elements of the investigation. »