“The investigation will continue under the authority of an investigating judge”, the public prosecutor of Nice has just announced to 20 minutes concerning the case of the municipal police officers of Nice, suspected of having abducted and beaten a 21-year-old youth.
Judicial information was opened this Wednesday afternoon for three of them, with the heads of “sequestration to facilitate a crime or misdemeanor, violence aggravated by three circumstances followed by ITT exceeding eight days, added Xavier Bonhomme. They incur up to ten years in prison and a fine of 150,000 euros”.
Elected environmentalists demand an “administrative investigation” and a “full audit”
For one of them, the counts of “repeated threat of crime” and “threat or act of intimidation to persuade a victim not to file a complaint” are also covered. The prosecution requested a warrant of deposit towards him to “avoid any fraudulent consultation and prevent any pressure”, specified the prosecutor. For the other two police officers, requisitions for judicial review were taken with, among other things, “prohibition on the exercise of the profession of municipal police officer”.
The mayor of Nice had “asked the director general of services to suspend these agents as a precaution” on Tuesday. Christian Estrosi stressed 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. »
For their part, the elected environmentalists at the town hall demanded by mail the prefect to carry out “an administrative investigation and to seize the IGPN for serious breaches of the police”. They would like a “complete audit of the municipal police of Nice” to be carried out to “know what is happening in this police force”.