Kevin, victim of a “muscular arrest” in Bois Joli: an investigation is open, investigations will be considered
This Sunday, September 4, the national police would have carried out a muscular arrest in the district of Bois Joli, in Saint-Pierre. The individual arrested suffered from injuries and received 5 days of ITT. He decided to file a complaint. The prosecution indicates that a procedure is open and that the facts are the subject of investigations.
A “muscular” arrest would occur in the Bois Joli district in Saint-Pierre, last Sunday. Filmed by a CCTV camera, the scene of the arrest was “muscular and shocking” for the family. Kevin, the defendant, explains that he would have asked the reasons for the arrest, but received no answer. He would therefore have moved away in order to warn his spouse by telephone, it was then that the police would have surrounded him before “attacking him”, according to his words.
A complaint lodged
Kevin suffers from several injuries and won 5 days of ITT. He does not deny the facts with which he is accused, he nevertheless denounces the form and the tone used. The Saint-Pierre public prosecutor’s office confirms that a complaint has been filed and that an investigation will be carried out.
“A procedure is actually opened following the complaint lodged by a man arrested by the police officers this weekend against these same officials. The man had been placed in police custody for aggravated theft, but also for acts of rebellion committed during his arrest. The facts of statements are the subject of the necessary investigations when a complaint of violence is filed, including medico-legal requisitions to establish any traces of beatings and hearings“, indicates the parquet floor.
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