On a video relayed by the association for aid to exiles Utopia 56, we see a CRS which diffuses several jets of tear gas, in particular on a mattress on the floor near the Stalingrad metro.
A report was made on Monday to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) after the broadcast of a video showing a policeman spraying tear gas on the personal effects of homeless migrants in Paris, AFP learned. from consistent sources.
An open investigation
On a video relayed last week on Twitter by the association for the aid of exiles Utopia 56, viewed more than a million times, we see a CRS which diffuses several jets of tear gas, in particular on a mattress on the floor. in a makeshift camp under the aerial metro in the north-east of Paris.
“I was able to film practices that exist but which always take place when your back is turned,” an activist and independent observer who wants to be called Ema and who made the report told AFP. When questioned, the national police told AFP that the Republican Security Companies (CRS) have opened an administrative investigation into these facts, without specifying the date of the opening of the investigation.
A “street harassment” for Utopia 56
On March 9, when she saw a CRS spray “several jets of mattresses and personal belongings hung on a fence”, it had been “three months” that the activist had been carrying out “observations of daily police harassment” on sporadic camps northeast of the capital.
“I am waiting for these facts to be sanctioned and for this to serve as an example,” she insisted.
“Street harassment is finally demonstrated,” added Nikolaï Posner, a manager of Utopia 56 who accompanied the activist’s approach.
The association, on Friday, made a report to the Defender of Rights Claire Hédon.
Since the broadcast of the video, the camp located at the foot of the Stalingrad metro “is no longer dismantled”, observed Utopia 56, while for several weeks the homeless “have been evacuated every morning”.
Two days before the broadcast of the video, “we had distributed blankets and mattresses” to some “50 to 100 Afghan, Sudanese and Chadian asylum seekers who sleep there every night”, added Nikolai Posner.
