At the origin of this unusual arrest, the collision between a cyclist and a police officer. Everything was then crescendo. Passers-by intervened shouting. What really happened? Two versions are opposed.
A surprising altercation created a stir this afternoon in the city center of Lille. A mother of a family accompanied by her granddaughter of about 5 years old was arrested by municipal police. Videos circulated on social networks showing this arrest which made several passers-by react.
According to the testimony of a person who filmed part of the arrest but who did not directly attend the beginning of the scene, the thesis of a collision between the little girl on a bicycle and a police officer circulated. This is what he told us: “I see a handcuffed mom and a policeman giving her an arm lock while her little girl, about 5 years old, cries and screams.
“Passers-by prevented the police”
Passers-by then gathered around the mother, the little girl and the three municipal police officers. The police called for reinforcement as passers-by were yelling at the police and gathering more and more. The police tried to pick up the mother and her daughter several times, but passers-by stopped them and the mother struggled as best she could.
The requested Lille town hall reacts. One of the three officers who walked through the pedestrian streets has “suddenly [été] hit by a woman riding a bicycle, on the sidewalk, without a helmet, and followed by her child, also on a bicycle.
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Arrest of a mother in front of her daughter in Lille
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Behviour “violent and outrageous” from the mother
“The agent reminds her of the rules of the highway code and the breaches of which she is the author, telling her that it is forbidden to ride a bicycle on the sidewalks. Faced with the verbally violent and outrageous behavior of this person, the municipal police officer issues the woman, for cycling on the sidewalk, who refuses to present her identity document.
While the report has just been drawn up, the woman loses her temper, throws her bicycle at the policeman, then tries to butt him with a head. One of the other two agents is forced to intervene and then tries to reassure the child who is frightened by the situation, which puts the mother in an even greater state of anger.
Several witnesses of the scene, according to the City, expressed to the municipal police officers their wish to act as a witness “.
The Sapeurs-Pompiers then intervened to take care of the woman and her child, in order to take them to the Saint-Vincent hospital in Lille. The municipal police filed a complaint against the mother of the family for contempt and willful violence against a police officer.
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