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“If I feel you, what are you going to do?” »… An LFI deputy files a complaint against a police officer

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The case is not commonplace. The Bobigny prosecution seized the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) after the complaint of deputy Aly Diouara for threats he would have received from a police officer in February.

In his complaint filed on Monday, the deputy for the 5th district of Seine-Saint-Denis “grieves a police officer to have turned in his direction, pointing his magpie (electric pulse pistol) in his direction and saying” who you are? “. He explains then having declined his identity and ordered the policeman to put his taser to put away, which he would have been answered “if I feel you, what are you going to do?” “, Details the prosecution. An investigation for violence by person depository of the public authority was opened by the prosecution.

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On February 26, the LFI parliamentarian claimed to have witnessed “facies control” led by police to two young people in a city in Bobigny. It was to “invoke the respect of the rights” of the latter that he would have intervened, according to the press release and the messages he posted on X in the days following the facts. It was then that he was targeted by one of the agents.

“These words as well as the threatening gesture, are unacceptable and extremely serious, especially since they have been addressed to a parliamentarian in the exercise of his mission of control of public action,” denounced Me Ugo Valls, lawyer for the parliamentarian in a press release released on Monday, announcing the filing of complaints with the prosecution and the IGPN.

The police assure that they “did not know what to expect”

According to a police source, the agents who controlled young people “for the consumption of narcotics” assured that they had released their electric pulse when a man intervened to ask for explanations, because they “did not know what to expect” when he slipped his hand into his pocket to take out his deputy card.

Following these facts, Aly Diouara had received the support of LFI personalities, Tel Jean-Luc Mélenchon who wrote on X: “Red-the-bol! We demand respect for all our elected officials ”. “I provide my full support for police officers who have only accompanied their mission, within the framework of the laws of the Republic,” wrote the Paris police prefect, Laurent Nuñez, in response to the message on X of Mr. Diouara. The prefect of Seine-Saint-Denis, Julien Charles, had also expressed his “support for the officials concerned”.

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