On December 1, 2018, during the act 3 of yellow vests, a dozen CRS had struck him violently with the demonstrators, who were refugees in the hotel.
This is a case seen as emblematic of the excesses observed in the maintenance of order in the face of the movement of the yellow vests. Four CRS, placed in custody Monday in the investigation of violence in a Burger King in 2018 in the margins of a demonstration of yellow vests in Paris, were presented Tuesday to a judge of instruction, according to a justice source, confirming information of LCI. They were then indicted Tuesday and placed under judicial control.
All have been indicted for voluntary violence without disabilities, by a person agent of the public authority and two of them are also prosecuted for voluntary violence with incapacity for work of less than eight days per person agent of the public authority meeting, and with a weapon. Their judicial review forbade them to come into contact with each other, to exercise the function of police officer on the public way and to hold or carry a weapon.
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On December 1, 2018, during the act 3 of yellow vests, a thirty protesters and a few journalists had found refuge in a Burger King located near the Arc de Triomphe, at the end of a day of action marked by much violence and clashes.
A dozen CRS, arrived on the spot a few minutes after, had entered and had been struck violently several demonstrators, some lying on the ground, using batons. The scene had been filmed by several journalists.
violence “which did not seem justified” according to the IGPN
This case had led to the opening of a preliminary investigation, entrusted to the general Inspectorate of the national police (IGPN). It was then entrusted to the end of may 2019 to a judge of instruction. In its report of the end of the preliminary investigation dated may 16, 2019, consulted by AFP, the IGPN had recognized that violence “that did not seem justified” had been committed in the context of this intervention, conducted by the first section of the 43rd republican security company of Chalon-sur-Saône.
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The IGPN cited in particular the case of Natan A., who had received 27 batons, carried by six police officers, before being able to get out of the restaurant. But the police of the police at the time had the insured not be able to identify all of the officials involved, while on several videos provided to investigators, and put online by some in the media, one could make out the face of several police officers.
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In his report, the IGPN has been insisting on the “context” of the general event, evoking a “context insurrectional chaos “unpublished”, acts of “extreme violence” against police and “assaults coordinated by opponents radicalized”.
