Police open an investigation after the racist attack on a pizza delivery man, treated as a slave and brutalized in the Val d’Oise

The official account of the national police of Val d’Oise announced this Monday morning to open a judicial investigation to identify the author and establish the facts “following the threats and insults uttered yesterday [dimanche] evening in Cergy, featured on a number of social networks“.

“He made her bleed”

On the images visibly filmed by the resident of a restaurant in Cergy, we can make out an individual with his head covered with a hood, who calls himself Algerian, shouting insults at this woman who intervenes from her window following the assault on her. a delivery man of African origin.

Facing the camera, the individual has since addressed his interlocutor in the street with an aggressive tone: “Because he comes from I don’t know what place, you fuckin ‘… he comes to get the shit“.

“Take off the hood if you’re proud“, addresses the witness to him.”I am Algerian and I n … your mother“, he replies then before returning to the woman, with his face uncovered this time, to utter threats against her and her husband and insults.

In height, the witness then commented. “He called him a slave. He made her bleed. Here is his blood which is on the ground, there … because the guy he came there quietly“.

The footage does reveal traces of blood on the ground and a delivery man who appears to be in shock.

The reactions

Marlène Schiappa, Minister Delegate to the French Minister of the Interior, in charge of Citizenship, reacted on Monday on her Twitter account.

“Faced with this new shocking, violent and racist attack on a home meal delivery man, I asked that we study the possibility of an article 40 to report the facts to the Public Prosecutor. Racism is not an opinion!“.

The same goes for the Licra (International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism) which reacted: “We have learned of the shocking images and racist remarks linked to the assault of a delivery man yesterday, Sunday, in Cergy. Our legal committee immediately studies the elements of the case and will act accordingly.“.