Refusal to comply: a video of a violent arrest panics the web: Femme Actuelle Le MAG

In less than 24 hours, the video of a man arrested between Bagneux and Fontenay-aux-Roses, in the Hauts-de-Seine, has accumulated nearly 900,000 views, announced The Parisian Sunday, August 13, 2023. In the nine-second video posted Saturday, August 12, 2023 on account X (formerly the social network Twitter) by bezeleze92a man was hit and knocked down by a car fitted with a flashing light. Subsequently, the individual is put on the ground and arrested very violently by two men who are seen coming running in his direction.. Only one of the two men wears a police uniform. The reasons for his arrest were due to an aggravated refusal to comply, the Hauts-de-Seine prefecture told journalists from the Parisian Sunday August 13, 2023. The man was riding a scooter and allegedly ran a red light, subsequently refusing to be checked by fleeing. He would have gone towards a national police car before hitting it.

An open investigation to determine the causes of the arrest

The Hauts-de-Seine police headquarters also indicated that the driver of the scooter would then get off his two-wheeler before being caught by the police, at the end of the day Saturday August 12, 2023 between Bagneux and the border with Fontenay -aux-Roses, in the Hauts-de-Seine department. The town hall of Bagneux declared Sunday, August 13, 2023 in the afternoon that an investigation was underway to try to determine the circumstances of the arrest and the events that led to the individual being run over by the car fitted with a flashing light and arrested quite violently. However, a CCTV camera located near Fontenay-aux-Roses was able to film the scene. As part of the investigation, the municipal police of the town received a requisition. Many fairly aggressive arrests have been made since the death of young Nahel, aged 17 and killed by police fire after refusing to comply in Nanterre on Tuesday June 27, 2023. Contesting the violence of the police, several nights protests had taken place throughout the country and heated confrontations between citizens and the police had been filmed and posted on social networks.