A 43-year-old police officer from Cahors (Lot) was sentenced Wednesday in Agen to four years in prison, including two years, for two assaults, including one of a sexual nature, we learned from lawyers on Thursday.
This sentence is accompanied by a permanent ban on exercising a profession related to security, as well as a ban for a period of five years from working in the public service.
The official will appeal
The official, who is the subject of a deferred committal warrant, will appeal this decision, we learned from his lawyer, Me Sandrine Fournier. “He denies sexual assault in its entirety,” she clarified, regarding the events that occurred on the night of June 10 to 11, 2021 in Cahors.
“Something may have happened to this woman but he had nothing to do with it. She was obviously drunk that evening. He walked her home after intervening for a nighttime disturbance. Witnesses saw nothing wrong. My client’s DNA was found on his clothes but also the DNA of around ten other people as well as traces of someone else’s semen. »
A slap against a Guinean during an identity check
The police officer was also on trial for having slapped a Guinean, awaiting a residence permit and now a political refugee, during an identity check in Cahors on May 31, 2021 during a curfew period due to the coronavirus pandemic. Covid-19.
According to the young man’s lawyer, then aged 24, Me Laure O’Kelly, “he was walking in the street without a special certificate”. “While he was on foot, he changed streets, he fled but after twenty minutes of pursuit on foot, he was caught and kneeled in front of the police. The police officer then dragged my client to a side street and slapped him. Witnesses heard the sound of slaps and my client claims to have heard racist remarks from the police officer,” added the lawyer.
According to Me Sandrine Fournier, the police officer “admits to having given a slap” to the young man “because he was afraid that he would run away after chasing him for twenty minutes but he denies the racist remarks, being himself ‘foreign origin’.
The defendant is also under judicial control concerning two other ongoing proceedings, we learned from a source close to the case.