The prefect of police of Paris Didier Lallement seized the IGPN, the “police of the police” and asked for the suspension of a police officer who called a “whore” a woman who filed a complaint for sexual assault, indicated Thursday the prefecture in a statement.
“Big whore”, “she refuses the confront’ (confrontation, editor’s note) dirty whore”, in a message left by mistake on the complainant’s answering machine, we hear a police officer insulting her several times, according to a recording revealed by Mediapart.
“Inadmissible” remarks
It all starts on the night of February 4 to 5, the 34-year-old young woman files a complaint with police officers from the police station of the 5th and 6th arrondissements of Paris for “sexual assault while intoxicated”, indicates Mediapart.
A few hours later, another police officer from this police station calls him and leaves him a voice message asking him to come and complete his complaint. Believing to have hung up, we hear the official joking with one of his colleagues: “I will call her back anyway because she must be sleeping off! He then read aloud an excerpt from the young woman’s complaint. “It does not make sense the complaint in fact,” he says. “Ah obviously she refuses the confrontation”, he continues. “She really is a whore. (…) Damn, she refuses the confrontation in addition to the whore. As if by chance. In fact it was just to break his balls, I’m sure. (…) Whore, big whore”, he says again, before the handset is well hung up.
Condemning “inadmissible remarks”, the prefect of police indicated that he had “immediately seized the IGPN”, the General Inspectorate of the National Police, and “requested the suspension as a precautionary measure of the official”. “No offensive or abusive behavior will be tolerated on the part of a police officer, vis-à-vis a victim”, adds the prefecture in its press release, recalling its “full commitment to improve the reception and the support for victims of domestic and sexual violence” in police stations.