In a voice message left inadvertently on his answering machine, an agent had treated “whore”, repeatedly, a young woman who had just filed a complaint for sexual assault.
Le Monde with AFP
The parquet of Paris has continually classified the open investigation for “non-public insults” aimed at a policeman accused of treating “whore” a complainant for sexual assault, learned Thursday, March 17 the France-Presse agency . “The open procedure of the head of non-public undue insults has been classified without a continuation on February 25,” the parquet said, confirming information from Mediapart
In early February, the online information site had revealed the history of this 34-year-old woman who had filed a first complaint in the night of 4 to 5 February with police officers from the 5 – SUP> police station e and 6 e Arrondissements of Paris for “sexual aggression in a state of drunkenness”, resulting in the opening of an investigation.
A police officer of this police station recalled it at midday and left him a vocal message on his answering machine to ask him to complete his complaint. Believing having hung up, we hear the civil servant joke with one of his colleagues: “I’ll call it anyway because, there, it must be cupping!”
Then reading aloud an excerpt from the complaint of the young woman, he added, “She does not make sense the complaint in fact”. “Oh obviously, she refuses the confrontation,” he said next. “It’s really a whore. (…) Fuck, she refuses her confront ‘in addition to the whore. As by chance. In fact it was just to break her balls, I’m sure. (…) Fuck, big whore “, he concluded, before the handset is well hung up.
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“The procedure has been completed without a continuation of lack of characterization of the offense, the words having been required to bring them to the knowledge of the complainant,” justified the public prosecutor. This case had aroused many criticisms, particularly in feminist environments, which regularly denounce the misunderstood by the police of the victims of sexual violence.
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, had felt that this policeman had “plus its place” within the National Police. The Police Prefect, Didier Lallement, had condemned him “inadmissible remarks” and announced having seized the “Police Police” (IGPN) of an administrative investigation and requested the suspension of the police officer.
The complainant had filed a complaint before the IGBN regarding these insults, causing the opening of this second investigation on February 16, now classified.