France: court gave suspended term to defendants in high -profile case of police violence

The Criminal Court of the French Department Saint-Sen-Deni sentenced to a suspended period of 3 to 12 months of three police officers who appeared in the case of sexual violence against a young man in 2017.

According to the French media, the case of the arrest of the 22-year-old dark-skinned young man Theo Luhak on February on February on February on February of February, on February of February 2017, in a suburbs of Paris, One-Su-Bois, became a symbol of police violence in France.

By 12 months of conditional imprisonment, the court sentenced a policeman who injured Luhaka on the day of the incident, using a club. Two other policemen, who at that time held the guy, were sentenced to three months of conditional imprisonment.

The plaintiff’s lawyers considered the punishment of disproportionate the severity of the crime. The French deputy from the opposition party “Unwavering France” (LFI) Thomas Portes wrote on the social network X that Theo was injured by the police on that day and lost their performance for 60 days.

“Theo has irreversible damage, and he needs lifelong medical supervision. His life will never be the same,” the deputy wrote.

Portes expressed indignation that the defendants of the case were sentenced to conditional imprisonment. The French state hides violence from the police, he emphasized.

Another LFI deputy Carlos Martens Bilongo wrote on the social network X that if theo had not been dark -skinned, the court would not have sentenced the policeman to a conditional time.

The Theo case is a loud French court case related to the arrest of a 22-year-old man Theodore Luhak, known as Theo, February 2, 2017 in Saint-Sen-Deni.

France covered protest promotions after the persons of sexual violence against the theo with the use of a club appeared in the media.