Two police officers from the Agen police station were summoned on May 20 for “violence by people holding public authority” and “forgery”, the services of the public prosecutor in Auch confirmed on Tuesday. The trial is announced in the Gers and not in Agen, this case having been relocated at the request of the public prosecutor’s office of the Court of Appeal of Agen.
Filmed by a passerby
We have to go back to the day before August 15 to understand why two Agen police officers are summoned to court, which remains an extremely rare procedure. On Thursday, August 13 in the early evening near the Agen remand center, an individual was arrested by the Agen police officers. He was seen trying to throw objects over the wall of the prison on rue Montaigne. Difficult to control, the suspect does not give way, the tone rises and the arrest reaches a certain degree of violence. The individual would have spat in the face of the representatives of the police.
Transmitted video
A passerby decides to film the scene, and then broadcasts the images on the Snapchat social network. The man, once controlled, is taken into custody in the premises of the Agen police station. In the custody cell, new tensions between the accused and a police officer. Two moments, two different facts. In the meantime, the video of the arrest is captured and then sent to the prosecutors. The violence of the images pushed the public prosecutor of Agen to seize the “police force”.
In September, the services of the IGPN (General Inspectorate of the National Police) began their investigation and launched a series of hearings in Agen to clarify this issue. These internal discussions continued until the gates of autumn and then at the start of the year. The two police officers were heard on Tuesday in the premises of the Auch police station.
Already known
The individual at the heart of the alleged violence by the Agen police officers is not unknown. He is now serving a prison sentence for contempt and rebellion against a representative of the police in Bordeaux. A supposed victim of the violence committed on August 13 in Agen, this Agenais in his twenties was also heard by the services of the IGPN.
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