The events, which took place on Thursday around 5 p.m., were filmed. Two police officers were suspended on Friday by the director general of the national police, Frédéric Veauxafter they were implicated in a video showing them hitting a minor in Villiers-le-Bel (Val-d’Oise), the police announced.
The video posted on social networks shows two officials hitting a young man during a police operation. One hits him several times, and the young man falls to the ground. It was then that a second police officer arrived and punched him in the stomach after putting him back on his feet.
Two open investigations
Two investigations have been opened, the same source added, one judicial for “intentional violence by a person holding public authority” and the other pre-disciplinary administrative, entrusted to the Val-d’Oise police. .
The town of Villiers-le-Bel was the scene of urban violence for several days in November 2007 after the death of Moushin and Larami, two young people aged 15 and 16, hit by a police car while they were driving motorbike.