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Police Officers Suspended in Angoulême for Alleged Racist Violence Against Detainee
Thursday 29 February 2024, by
Two police officers from the Angoulême (Charente) police station are the subject of a judicial investigation for violence and racist remarks towards a man in custody.
According to the daily Charente Libre, the events took place at the end of January at the Angoulême police station. The two police officers are suspected of having struck the man and called him a "bougnoule", declared on Wednesday Stéphanie Aouine, the public prosecutor of Angoulême.
The individual placed in custody is "suspected of having, with others, committed a sexual assault on the passenger of a TGV", indicates the police. The departmental director of the national police, Jean-Luc Taltavull, assures that he has reported to the public prosecutor these two police officers who would have "engaged in illegitimate violence (blow) combined with racist remarks to the detriment of a third party".
Pending the conclusions of the judicial investigation, the two police officers have been disarmed and assigned to "administrative tasks", the national police announced on X, specifying that "an administrative investigation has been opened and they will be suspended".