Implicated for violence against “yellow vests” in a Burger King, a police commissioner and a commander are threatened with a warning.
A police commissioner and a commander, implicated for violence against “yellow vests” in a Burger King in Paris in 2018, are threatened with a warning after their passage Monday in the disciplinary council, we learned Tuesday from union sources.
Two police captains also appeared on Monday. The first escaped a sanction proposal while the reprimand proposed for the second did not collect the majority of voters, according to two union sources.
On Tuesday, the disciplinary council also failed to agree on sanctions to be proposed, from warnings to reprimands, concerning eight CRS who acted under the orders of their superiors, according to union sources. Opinions of absence of sanctions were therefore adopted by a majority.
The warning is a disciplinary sanction of the first group, the lowest in the public service, and is not the subject of any mention in the file of the agent. The blame appears in the agent’s file but disappears after three years if no new fault is committed in the meantime.
These sanctions, which are only proposals, must now be sent to the General Directorate of the National Police (DGPN), which will decide whether or not to validate them.
The demonstrators “had taken refuge inside the establishment because of the massive presence of tear gas”
On December 1, 2018, during act 3 of the mobilization of “yellow vests”, around thirty demonstrators and a few journalists had found refuge in a Burger King restaurant in the capital, at the end of a day marked by numerous violence including the ransacking of the Arc de Triomphe.
A dozen CRS, who arrived a few minutes later, entered and beat several demonstrators, some lying on the ground, with batons. The scene had been filmed.
On the judicial level, at least eight CRS have been indicted in this case for “willful violence by a person holding public authority”, according to an AFP count.
In a June 2020 investigation report, the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) considered that the demonstrators “had taken refuge inside the establishment due to the massive presence of tear gas on the ave”.
“Of all the blows with truncheons or kicks, none seemed justified, necessary or proportionate”, had decided the “police of the police”.
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