A police investigation was opened after a violent baton by a police officer on a young man during the demonstrations on January 19 in Paris. The victim had to have a testicle amputated and filed a complaint.
If they were rare, some clashes took place on the sidelines of the demonstrations of January 19 in Paris. The security forces resorted to disencirclement grenades and sometimes baton blows… which were not always justified. It is a gesture in particular which led to the opening of an investigation by the general inspectorate of the national police (IGPN) for “violence by a person holding public authority”, this Monday, January 23. The police force is responsible for investigating a blow against a young man of 26 years. Which was seriously injured in the crotch and had to undergo the amputation of a testicle according to information from the Figaro and of BFM TV.
The operated victim and “in shock”
The young man victim of the truncheon would have been released from the hospital after the operation but would still be “in shock”, according to the continuous news channel. The victim of the police coup, a Franco-Spanish engineer living in Guadeloupe, filed a complaint for this “extremely violent and gratuitous gesture which borders on sadism”, said his lawyer Me Lucie Simon. The complaint is filed for the exact count of “willful violence resulting in mutilation by a person holding public authority”. And Me Simon added: “It is a criminal qualification, we are not in a state of self-defense or necessity, I want proof of this from the images we have and the fact that there is no was not subsequently arrested”.
Paris police chief Laurent Nunez said he had asked “the director of public order and traffic (DOPC) that the exact circumstances of the reported incident be clarified”. But the prefecture added that the facts took place “in a context of extreme violence and as part of a police maneuver to arrest violent individuals”.