Seven police officers of the Hauts-de-Seine accused, for a racist insult, for the other violence, during the interpellation of an Egyptian in April 2020 were heard, Thursday, by the judicial court. of Bobigny.
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What noise causes a blow to a human body? The sign of the sounds recorded after the interpellation of Samir E., on April 26, 2020 in the Ile-Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), held a central place in the trial of seven senior police officers. Seine heard, Thursday, November 4, before the judicial tribunal of Bobigny. They were accused of racist insults and violence.
It is first a video that was projected in court. Filmed by a waterfront, it was broadcast on Twitter by the journalist Taha Bouhafs . She shows peacekeepers around a police van parked on the banks of the Seine. Samir E. has just been arrested after crossing the river from the bank of the other shore, in Villeneuve-la-Garenne (Hauts-de-Seine), to flee another patrol who suspected him of theft of material on a construction site.
On the images, two police officers frame the suspect and disappear with him behind the vehicle. “He does not know how to swim, a bicot like that, it does not swim,” said Pierre C., another official official, him, to the image. “Ahah, it flows, you should have hook a ball at the foot,” says Dorian A., also a member of the Territorial Brigade of the Hauts-de-Seine. They recognized their remarks, were suspended for five and a half months, before being reintegrated and sanctioned by their hierarchy of a temporary expulsion of fifteen days, including five closed days.
“Deaf sounds features shots”
Only Peter C. is pursued by the bobigny prosecutor’s office for racist public insult, but six of his colleagues are warned with him. M e Aié Alimi, the lawyer of Samir E., cited them to appear by accusing them of violence. “Once arrived at the bank, they dragged me on the floor, handcuffed, then started to hit me,” said, with the help of his interpreter, Samir E., Egyptian arrived in France in 2011. In the Van, he continues, “They lying on my face, struck me with batons and put their foot on the neck.”
Shots, the video shows nothing: it is nearly 2 o’clock in the morning, the public lighting is intermittent and a bush eclipses the windows of the center of the vehicle. Remains the sound atmosphere of the scene. “Cree of pain heard simultaneously with shot noises,” says the author of the video at the hearing. “Deaf sounds characteristic of shots given to someone”, tells the bar another witness, exit at the entrance of his house, close to that of the first, at the time of the arrival of the police.
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