The application allows you to shoot in direct interventions of the forces of order and send the images to the association of families of victims.

The videos to have the truth. The families of the victims of “police violence” launched on Tuesday an application to film the intervention of the forces of law and order with the aim of gathering “evidence” in case of violations, they noted.

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Called “Emergency police violence”, the application allows you to shoot in direct interventions of the forces of order and send the images to the association of families, according to one of its members, Amal Bentounsi.

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The videos are geo-tagged and “kept on server” and may be transmitted to the justice, ” added the activist.

In cases of this kind, the videos play a major role and may be used as “evidence”, she says. When there are no tangible elements, such as a video, it is “very difficult to prosecute”, she adds.

Available on Android

The application is currently available on Android and will soon be on iOS. The association must present to the public in several cities of the parisian suburbs, including Villiers-le-Bel (Val-d’oise), or Mantes-la-Jolie (Yvelines) this week.

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the origin of the application, the national Observatory of practices and police violence (ONVP), which includes several families of victims of “police violence” in which Amal Bentounsi.

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His brother, Amine, was shot in the back by a police officer in 2012, Seine-Saint-Denis. In 2017, the police officer has been sentenced on appeal to five years in prison with suspended sentence, the court considered that it had not acted in self-defence.