Four police officers from Perpignan are accused of sexual assault and were placed in police custody Thursday February 12 before being released in the evening.
“Unjust and biased legal proceedings.” This is how Force Ouvrière describes custody of four municipal police officers from Perpignan on Thursday, February 13. The agents are accused of sexual assault, committed during an arrest Tuesday in the Saint-Mathieu district of the city. Police custody was lifted in the evening.
A man born in 2002 indeed filed a complaint after his arrest on February 12, carried out during an anti-drug operation. He was subjected to a medical examination, which revealed traces of sexual assault and concluded a day of ITT. An investigation is underway for “sexual assault by a person abusing their authority,” said a prosecutor to “here”.
“The pedestrian cameras have triggered”
According to FO, these are “false accusations carried by a offender”. “Nothing says that the aggression was made by the municipal police, or that it was made before the arrest,” said the general secretary FO of the territorial of the town hall of Perpignan, Stéphane Maroselli. He denounces the police custody of the agents: “The police are depositaries of the authority and as such, it seems to me that there were alternative solutions, such as free hearing.” The union called on Thursday all the agents not to patrol, call raised on Friday.
According to the director of the municipal police, Philippe Rouch, the four police officers had been heard for the first time in the wake of the arrest on Tuesday, before being recalled by the prosecution “to hear them in another framework”. Their police custody could therefore have another reason. “If the survey proves the aggression, in this case, procedures will be implemented, but this is not the case currently, there is a presumption of innocence,” he said. And to add: “Confidence does not exclude control, but it is difficult to explain to agents constantly pointed out on the words of a dealer that they can find themselves in police custody. Pedestrian cameras they are equipped with.
The mayor of Perpignan, Louis Aliot (RN), brought this subject to municipal council on Thursday evening and supported the police. “They are treated as culprits today, while the dealer seeks to escape his responsibilities by manipulating the procedure,” reacted the mayor. He claimed to have contacted Gérald Darmanin and Bruno Retailleau, Ministers of Justice and the Interior.