Toulouse: sandwich seller in the Zénith parking lot, he accuses a municipal police officer of harassment
Vendor of sandwiches in Toulouse on the days of concerts or matches, Rachid Temmar accuses a municipal police officer of harassment and of racist innuendo.
Rachid Temmar is a well-known figure in Toulouse life. Sports educator in the neighborhoods, he has also been selling sandwiches for twenty years in the parking lots of the Zénith, Ernest-Wallon or the Stadium on the days of matches or concerts. But its relations with local authorities, in particular the municipal police, are sometimes stormy. Latest episode to date: last October 31, in the parking lot of the Zénith, where the Woodkid concert was to take place the same evening.
Rachid Temmar and his brother set up their truck and unpack their goods in the place assigned to them. When a municipal police patrol occurs by an agent with whom the merchant has already come into conflict in the past and who had arisen in a complaint of discrimination against the police officer.
“When he saw me he told me to fold and to carry out all, while I have the authorizations to occupy the public domain” protests the trader. “He took me to task in front of everyone,” said to me I told you we would meet again or When Zemmour is going to be elected you will understand… It is unacceptable, I felt humiliated… ”According to Rachid Temmar, they would have even made him open the trunk of his car. The shopkeeper repacked and left without asking for his rest. “I had to throw away the food…” He is all the more worried that he would not want to alienate the municipal police when his activity is barely restarting: “With the Covid, it has been almost two years since I ‘did not work’.
For the municipal police, he was not in order
On the municipal police side, the version is significantly different: “A patrol on a security mission near the Cirque d’Hiver notices the presence of a group of street vendors being installed on the sidewalk opposite the entrance to the car park and whose vehicles were parked in the middle of the road, creating a major inconvenience for visitors to leave. The agents checked their authorization to occupy the premises. street vendor. A request made on numerous occasions. The vendor took out a kraft paper envelope containing many papers, in disorder, without ever being able to present a compliant document. At the end of an intervention of nearly an hour, the vendors left the scene and the three vehicles were fined “.
Rachid Temmar disputes the statements of the municipal police, specifying that he was in good standing and that the territorial officials refused to see his papers. He left a handrail at the Bagatelle police station.