The broadcast on Twitter of a video in which police officers used racist and offensive language provoked a referral to the police on Sunday.
On this video posted on Sunday afternoon on the Twitter account of the journalist of the site Over there if I am there, Taha Bouhafs, police officers are filmed after an arrest and have racist comments against a suspect qualified as “Bicot”. The scene obviously takes place at night and on Ile-Saint-Denis, according to Mr. Bouhafs.
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“You should have hooked him with a ball”
“A bicot like that doesn’t swim,” we hear. “Haha, it’s leaking, you should have had a ball on your foot,” he added, suggesting that the agents pulled the suspect out of the nearby Seine.
In other images, the police are heard to laugh and muffled noises come from the police van where the arrested man who appears to be shouting has been placed.
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The prefecture of police said it had seized the general inspectorate of the national police (IGPN).
“A video showing a police intervention in Ile-Saint-Denis is circulating on social networks. The Prefect of Police will seize the IGPN in order to shed light on the circumstances in which the police intervened and to determine the identity of the authors of the words heard, “said the PP.
According to the prefecture, the police intervened in the context of a meeting robbery.
An “unacceptable” video
LFI deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis, Eric Coquerel, denounced a video described as “unacceptable”.
“I don’t know what the latter did, I do know that on October 17, 1961, the bodies of Algerians drowned by the police were found on these same banks. To hear such racist comments and behavior from police officials today is a disgrace and a great concern, “lambasted Coquerel.
“With the mayor of Île-Saint-Denis Mohammed Gnabaly, we are in contact with the authorities to find out more about these reprehensible acts,” he added.
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