The policeman had repeatedly used a taser during “games” with subordinates. He appears before the Créteil Court.
Le Monde with AFP
Potache game that skids or hierarchical in camera, a policeman of the anti-criminal brigade (BAC) appeared on Tuesday 1 Er February before the Créteil Court for violence on subordinates including repeated strokes to taser, this electric pistol (PIE).
This former head of Bac Night of Boissy-Saint-Léger (Val-de-Marne), 43 years old, is continued for violence on two members of his team, including one with use or threat of a weapon , followed in both cases of an incapacity for work greater than eight days. The facts were committed in February 2020 for one, between December 2019 and February 2020 for the other.
The weapon used is a PIE that, according to the Ministry of the Interior User’s Guide, can constitute a “gradual and proportionate response to a danger situation”. It is not a lethal weapon because the pistol is “neither designed nor intended to kill”, but it remains “a weapon, which should not underestimate the dangerousness”. In this case, the pie has been used as “a virile game” between colleagues.
“It’s a game that is not very smart”
“The slamming, it surprised, we were happy. It’s a game that is not very smart, but who is practiced,” explains the policeman at the helm, arguing that he had at heart of Maintain “the spirit of body” of its unity, especially by “hills” in this genre. The Prosecuer evokes, her, the “closed” of this unit and points out that the defendant “had a unusual trade union position” and was “the superior” of the victims it was “not to come back” .
“We can not hit, give punches at the point of scoring. It can not be a game and it should not be considered a game,” she says, insisting on disability more than thirty days established for both victims. To punish these “serious facts” and recall “the need for trust” in police officers, it required two years of suspension imprisonment, the prohibition for five years of weapon port subject to authorization and the prohibition definitive to practice the police officer.
deliberate March 15
The defendant has already been suspended a month after an administrative investigation and the disciplinary council must decide on his fate. For him, the Taser is “a way to affirm his authority” on subordinates for some “impressed by the hierarchical order”, “says Pascal Markowicz, the council of victims who were not present at the hearing.
“We can not consent to receive blows and after going to whine”, argued for his part the lawyer of the defendant, M e Daniel Merchat. The “game” of the taser “does not sweep an exceptional intelligence, but it’s taken like a game, that some say viril,” he put forward requesting the relaxation of his client. The decision was made on March 15th.