This Wednesday, an investigation for intentional violence was opened by the IGPN after the complaint of a teacher, accusing two police officers of having assaulted her in Villetaneuse (Seine-Saint-Denis) on June 30 in the context of urban violence that France experienced recently, AFP learned on Wednesday from his lawyer and the Bobigny prosecution.
The facts reported
Shortly before 3 a.m., this school teacher was returning home by bicycle, after an evening with friends, when she stopped in the town hall square where a truck was on fire. Two police officers walked towards her, ordering her to leave the scene, she explained to the “police of polices”.
The 51-year-old teacher was then pushed to the ground by one of the officers and then handcuffed. “I’m on the ground, I have a weight on my back and my leg hurts, hurts,” testified the fifty-year-old in her complaint.
Transported to the hospital, she was operated on for a fracture of the tibia and fibula, injuries that led to 45 days of ITT (total interruption of work), according to the complaint. “She suffered violence on the ground by the two police officers,” her lawyer Me Arié Alimi told AFP. “Other police officers then intervened to put an end to the violence”, he added, deploring “an action of absolute savagery”.
Outrages according to the police version
An investigation for intentional violence by a person holding public authority has been opened by the IGPN, confirmed the Bobigny prosecution.
According to the police version, during a verbal altercation, the teacher allegedly yelled insults at the officers and it was during her arrest, struggling, that she fell off her bicycle, reported a source close to the police. case.
The CGT Educ’action 93 union, of which the professor is a member, denounced “these unbearable violence (…) symptoms of police impunity, of ultra-aggressive behavior towards the population, in particular that of working-class neighborhoods ” .