“Don’t remember, get over it”: a police officer convicted of insulting and hanging up on a victim of domestic violence

On 31 July, a 31-year-old woman from Osny (Val-d’Oise) contacted the police because her ex-partner had threatened her with death at the back of her building. Except as revealed franceinfo, the policeman who takes care of her does not take her request seriously. When she tells him her ex-boyfriend is going to kill her, the cop replies “no,” “whose ironic tone can be guessed from reading the transcript”, noticed franceinfo.

While the victim throws at the man who threatens her at the back of his building “Don’t start yelling my name downstairs, don’t piss me off Issa “, said the peacemaker to the victim, before hanging up: “ And you speak badly. So you surprise me that she’s threatening you. And she remembers more, she gets away with it. »

An hour and a half later, the victim calls 17 again. She runs into an interlocutor who seems to take her more seriously. But in reality it is the same policeman, who pretended to ignore the previous call. While the victim complains of being insulted and hung up, he replies: “ Ah, did he insult you? (…) Get your shit out of the way, that would surprise me. »

After warning him about the handrail she filed against her ex boyfriend explaining it “ It’s useless », he becomes impatient: “ Yes, that’s fine, go to the police station, file a complaint against your friend who is harassing you there, okay? (…) That’s all. ” AND “ for the policeman, I don’t know, he also sends a letter “, sweep.

The day after these phone calls, the victim was beaten by her former partner.

Ban on practicing

This 48-year-old policeman was summoned on Wednesday March 8 before the Pontoise criminal court for “lack of assistance” and was sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment on probation.

He was heard in public hearing at the request of the Pontoise prosecutor’s office. During this hearing, he explains that he did not take this call seriously because he had the impression that the victim was speaking “with a smile”. “A woman in danger is generally not aggressive towards the individual who threatens her. “, he has declared.

In addition to his conviction, the police officer ban from exercising the profession of police officer for eighteen months and the obligation to compensate the victim. He has ten days to appeal.

Tried at a hearing for aggravated violence, in November 2022, Issa B., the victim’s former partner, was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment, three of which were detained, the victim’s lawyer specified in franceinfo.