MP LFI Aly Diouara denounces facies control and says he was « threatened » with a taser – Liberation
« What are you going to do if I feel you? » These are the remarks reported by Aly Diouara, deputy LFI of the 5th district of Seine-Saint-Denis, that he would have been sent by a police officer on Wednesday, February 26. In a press release published on X, the parliamentarian challenges the attitude of police officers during the control of two young people in the Karl-Marx city in Bobigny. According to The Parisianwho quotes a video of the intervention, Aly Diouara then asked one of the agents to put away his electric pulse pistol. The authorities said their « support » police officers.
Aly Diouara claims to have witnessed« A facies control ». In his press release, he said: « I exercised my right to observe the action of the police, without interfering, in order to ensure the legality of the intervention and the respect of the fundamental rights of the persons concerned ». According to the deputy, « This control gave rise to an illegal excavation » of the two young people and their phones, « In the absence of any legal reason ».
With Parisianone of the two controlled men testifies: « The policeman searched my pockets, he palpated my testicles, he made me a blue card (the policeman passed his hand between his buttocks). Frankly, he abused on gestures. ” Witness of the scene, Aly Diouara then intervened. According to a police source, the agents who controlled young people « For a drug use » assured that they had released their electric pulse pistol when a man intervened to ask for explanations, because they « Didn't know what to expect » When he slipped his hand into his pocket to take out his deputy card.
Aly Diouara has questioned « An excessively offensive posture » police, while he was « In the exercise of his parliamentary mandate ». The deputy received the support of LFI personalities, in particular Jean-Luc Mélenchon who wrote on X: « Fed up! » We demand respect for all our elected officials ”.
For his part, the Paris police prefect Laurent Nuñez told his support for the officials concerned and defended the action of his workforce. They « Have only accomplished their mission, within the framework of the laws of the Republic »he wrote on X. He was joined by the prefect of Seine-Saint-Denis, Julien Charles, who also expressed his « Support to the officials concerned ».
The deputy mayor of La Courneuve, Betty Saint-Ubert, present at the time of exchanges between the deputy and the police, was arrested for « Outrage » and placed in police custody for several hours. The police said that she had treated them to « Cowboys » and « Racists »what she disputed. For his lawyer, Me Ugo Valls, the « Remarks that she made was not legally constitutive of an outrage and did not justify police custody ». « Police felt in trouble and decided, in order not to lose face, to challenge the first comer, the deputy mayor who was present so that the control does not degenerate »I told AFP Valls.
The two young people checked, they were left free, for lack of offense, according to the police.
