A report was made on Monday March 13 to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) after the broadcast of a video showing a police officer spraying tear gas on the personal effects of homeless migrants in Paris, learned Agence France-Presse (AFP) from concordant sources.
On a video relayed last week on Twitter by the ociation helping exiles Utopia 56viewed more than a million times, we see a CRS which diffuses several jets of tear gas, in particular on a mattress on the floor in a makeshift camp under the aerial metro in the north-east of Paris.
Right now, CRS are ging the blankets and personal effects of asylum seekers on the street near the S metro… https://t.co/6sm1NrU3oS
“I was able to film practices that exist but which always take place when your back is turned”, explained an activist and independent observer, who wishes to be called Ema and who made the report. When questioned, the national police said for its part that the Republican Security Company (CRS) opened an administrative investigation into these facts, without specifying the date of the opening of the investigation.
“I am waiting for these facts to be sanctioned and for this to serve as an example”
On March 9, when she saw a CRS who was spraying “several throws of mattresses and personal belongings hung on a fence”It was ” three months “ that the activist was carrying out “observations of daily police harment” on the sporadic camps in the northeast of the capital. “I am waiting for these facts to be sanctioned and for this to serve as an example”she insisted.
“Street harment is finally demonstrated”, abounded Nikolai Posner, a manager of Utopia 56 who accompanied the approach of the activist. The ociation, on Friday, made a report to the Defender of Rights, Claire Hédon.
Since the broadcast of the video, the camp located at the foot of the Stalingrad metro “no longer dismantled”observed Utopia 56, while for several weeks the homeless “were evacuated every morning”. Two days before the release of the video, “we had distributed blankets and mattresses” to some “fifty to a hundred Afghan, Sudanese and Chadian asylum seekers who sleep there every night”added Nikolai Posner.
The World with AFP