“The next time we come, you won’t get on the bus to go to the police station, you’ll get on another thing called an ambulance to go to the hospital. The prefect of police Laurent Nuñez announced this Friday that he had seized the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) after the threats made by police officers from the BRAV-M (brigade for the repression of motorized violent action) against young people. demonstrators in Paris. Intimidation accompanied by slapping revealed in an audio recording obtained by 20 minutesconfirming information from World and the Loopsider website.
Monday March 20, “about 2,000” people in “small broken groups” according to the prefect of police, had demonstrated in the center of the capital against the adoption of the pension reform via 49.3, erecting barricades and burning garbage cans. It is in this context that police officers from the BRAV-M, a unit decried for its muscular intervention methods, arrested seven young people, suspected of having taken part in the degradations, which many deny.
23 minutes recorded
One of the arrested then discreetly records the exchanges with the police. We hear the officials string together humiliating, threatening and intimidating remarks, in particular towards one of the seven young people, the only one in the group who is black. Two sounds of slapping are also audible, before one of the police officers launches: “You are starting to stutter! Do you re-want maybe one, that I give you the right jaw? »
“I hope tomorrow you’re unshod, what are you going to take six months? Six months is good and an OQTF (obligation to leave the territory),” said another police officer to the young man, of Chadian nationality. “It’s the first who gets a hard-on from the other”, “You’re lucky, we’re going to take revenge on other people”, we hear later.
“Unacceptable remarks”
The prefect of police “decided to seize the IGPN” after the “sound recording of a police intervention during a demonstration in Paris on March 20”, tweeted the police prefecture. This is an administrative investigation.
“Obviously these remarks are unacceptable (…), which ethically pose very serious problems”, declared Laurent Nuñez of police in the program C à vous on France 5, adding to be “like everyone else, very shocked”.
“The politics of terror applied to young people. With a racism supplement on the only black man in the group. These police officers must be heavily sanctioned, ”tweeted the LFI deputy from the North. David Guiraud. “We must dissolve this unit of terror”, reacted for his part the rebellious deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis Bastien Lachaud.
In a letter sent Wednesday to Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, three deputies from La France insoumise – Thomas Portes, Antoine Léaument and Ugo Bernalicis – asked for the “provisional dismantling of Brav-M”.