A police commissioner tried for having ordered the charge causing serious injuries in March 2019 of a septuagenarian “yellow vest”, Geneviève Legay, has been appointed deputy director of the Nice municipal police, the town hall announced on Thursday.
Rabah Souchi, 54, was tried at the beginning of January in Lyon: the prosecution requested a six-month suspended prison sentence and the criminal court reserved its judgment until March 8.
The city of Nice announced in December that it had accepted Souchi’s candidacy for the position of N.2 in the municipal police in September, but the decision was not final. Now seconded from the national police, this commissioner will take up his new role within the 550 Nice municipal police officers on February 12.
In December, the announcement of this possible appointment sparked criticism from the far left to the far right in Nice.
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The town hall did not wish to comment on this choice, announced at the same time as the appointment of two other senior officials of municipal services. “These (three) appointments aim to call on several high-level executives,” she explained and to respond with “the greatest expertise” to future challenges, particularly in terms of security.
Nice is due to host the arrival of the Tour de France as well as the Olympic Games events this summer, then the United Nations World Ocean Conference in June 2025.
Originally from Hauts-de-France, who arrived in Nice in 2017, Souchi appeared in January for “complicity in violence by a person holding public authority”, in his capacity as operational head of security during a demonstration prohibited but calm on March 23, 2019 in Nice.
He is accused of having ordered a charge which was “neither necessary nor proportionate” according to the investigating judges and which led the police to throw Legay, an activist from the Attac citizens’ association who has kept some, to the ground. serious after-effects.
The images of this gray-haired demonstrator, standing with a rainbow flag in her hand, then lifeless on the ground, surrounded by police, caused a stir. The charge was the “most effective tactic that day” in order to meet the objective set by the prefect: to disperse the demonstration, he maintained during the trial.
2024-02-09 13:29:10
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