Disciplinary Board Very Clément for police officers responsible for “Cabt” of Burger King

On December 1, 2018, CRS had been filmed behind protesters during act III “yellow vests”. Almost all will escape the sanctions.

The images had made the turn of social networks and television channels, aroused the indignation of public opinion. The 1 December 2018, the Act III of the mobilization of “yellow vests” was marked by violent clashes between law enforcement and protesters, particularly in the district of the Arc de Triomphe. , in Paris. That day, at the strongest clashes, about thirty people accompanied by journalists had been beaten and, for some, struck by police by police while they had invested a restaurant of the Chain Burger King, closed in Forecasting of events.

Tuesday 1 ^Er March, nine CRS were summoned before the Disciplinary Board, a proceeding that merely proposed sanctions, the Directorate General of the National Police then deciding, or not, of Apply. On the occasion of their appearance, the members of the Council did not manage to find an agreement on the nature and extent of the proposals for sanctions and ended up adopting a notice of absence of punishment.

The day before, Monday, February 28, officials of the on-site maintenance service on December 1, 2018 had also been summoned. And the council has been barely less climated on this occasion. A police commissioner and police commander now risk a warning, a disciplinary sanction “of the first group”, the lowest planned in the public service in the public service, and an insignificant scope since it does not make not the subject of any mention on the official’s administrative file. Also heard, two captains, on the other hand, escaped any sanction.

Excessive use of force

All, to varying degrees, were part of the security device around the Champs-Elysées and directed the officials filmed along a sequence viewed several million times on social networks. For nearly a minute, we distinguish a dozen CRS – we will learn later that they belong to the company n ° 43, based in Chalon-sur-Saône (Saône-et-Loire) – striking with shots of baton and embroiders on a few “yellow vests”, on the ground, who try to protect yourself from a real shot of shots.

Eighteen months later, a survey entrusted to the general inspection of the National Police had concluded that excessive use of force, noting not only that the protesters “had taken refuge within the establishment due to the massive presence of tear gas on the avenue “- and not to commit degradation, according to a first police version – but still that” on all the strokes of the worked, none seemed justified, necessary or proportioned “.

Eight CRS have also been indicted in this case for “voluntary violence committed by a custodian person of the public authority”. The last one, a captain of 46, was the highest graded on the evening of the facts inside the King Burger. Audition, he had described an extremely trying day for him and his men, mobilized almost twenty-four hours in a row. He had also recognized being the police officer who, on the images, assets eight defense stick and a kick to a protester on the ground. It is one of the two officers who should escape any sanction.

/Media reports.