New complaint after racist remarks made during a police arrest, on the night of Saturday to last Sunday, in Ile-Saint-Denis. After the League for Human Rights (LDH) and SOS Racisme, it is the turn of the authors of the video, on which we hear Hauts-de-Seine police officers pronouncing the words in question, to file a complaint with the prosecution de Bobigny, targeted according to them, by pressure.
Summoned as witnesses by the IGPN on Tuesday, the two men demanded to be heard in the presence of their lawyer, Me Arié Alimi. Assistance which the procedure reserves in principle to the accused and to the victims and not to the simple witnesses.
“Except that in this case, my clients are indeed victims,” insists Me Alimi. They were scared to death at the time of filming this video, and since then, they have suffered a great deal of anxiety and anxiety. “
On the night of Saturday to Sunday, these two residents filmed the scene of the arrest before it was broadcast on social networks. “A bicot like that, it does not swim”, can we hear in particular on the images captured after the officials left the Seine a fugitive without paper suspected of theft on a construction site.
Since then, the two videographers say, through the voice of their lawyer, that they are under pressure from the police. They claim in particular to have seen, on several occasions since this weekend, a police vehicle passing by their home. Hence their complaint to the prosecutor of Bobigny.
According to their lawyer, the Nanterre prosecution must be divested
Because, according to Me Arié Alimi, it is indeed by the parquet floor of Bobigny and not by that of Nanterre that the investigation must be directed. Tuesday, the criminal, known for his fight against police violence, also wrote to the Attorney General of the Court of Appeal of Paris and his counterpart in Versailles to “raise the conflict” and obtain the divestiture from the Nanterre parquet floor.
“It is the place of commission of the facts that determines the jurisdiction of the prosecution,” he believes. However, in this specific case, the man who sought to escape the police was recovered in Seine-Saint-Denis. And it was still in Seine-Saint-Denis that he was insulted and subjected to violence in the police van. There is nothing to justify the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office being in charge of this file. “
