A report has been made to the prosecution for suspicion of police violence at the night deposit of the Paris judicial court, the police headquarters (PP) announced on Wednesday to AFP, confirming information from the site. street press.
Internal administrative investigation in progress
“Since Friday, the facts reported by hierarchical report are the subject of an internal administrative investigation”, confirmed the police headquarters. The case would have been discovered during an incident which occurred on February 6 when a policeman, bearing a mark on the forehead, explained that he had been beaten by a person referred to the court, but refused to file a complaint.
“The information goes up the chain of command to the Paris police headquarters, which has control of the court filing,” adds the Streetpress site. At the request of AFP, the Paris prosecutor’s office clarified that it had not been informed of these facts at this stage and that an investigation will be opened after receiving the report from the PP.
Images of violence captured by cameras
The hierarchy then consults the video surveillance images. “What the cameras show goes beyond the simple ‘incident’,” writes Streetpress. The news site claims that violent behavior against detainees is “recurrent”, according to the hearing of a service official who allegedly designated “a handful of officials, who arrived at the night depot there about a year ago.”
Other officials would often film the monitor screens of CCTV cameras on which these behaviors appear, according to Streetpress. The site produced a video, presented as filmed at the TJ depot, in which a female police officer appeared to strike an individual being taken down a hallway.
In January 2022, the Paris public prosecutor’s office dismissed an investigation opened in mid-2020 into mistreatment and racist remarks at the filing of the judicial court of the capital opened after the denunciation of a brigadier-chief. The testimony of this chief brigadier, Amar Benmohamed, had been revealed by Streetpress. According to him, “more than a thousand defendants were mistreated” between March 2017 and mid-2019 at the depot. However, the prosecutor’s office considered that there was no element “to establish the phenomenon of ill-treatment which has been denounced”.