France: The 36 quai des Orfèvres, judicial police headquarters.

 

 

France: The 36 quai des Orfèvres, judicial police headquarters.

 

36 quai des Orfèvres, judicial police headquarters. Photo credits: Jean-Christophe MARMARA / Le Figaro

 

VIDEOS - Three of the four officials placed in custody since Thursday referred this Saturday. Prosecutors should seek their remand in custody. The complainant would be returned to the Canada.

 

Three of the four policemen in police custody after the complaint of a Canadian for rape at 36 quai des Orfèvres were brought to court Saturday late morning. These three officers of the Brigade of research and intervention (bis), the old "gang", were to be presented in the afternoon to a judge for a possible implementation for examination. The Paris Prosecutor's office should require their remand in custody. A fourth policeman, also placed in custody Thursday, was released free Saturday without charge at this stage of the investigation.

 

As a first step, the police questioned have all denied having had sexual relations with this woman for 34 years, arrived in France in mid-April for a holiday. But the case bounced on the night of Friday to Saturday when one of them acknowledged having had a sexual relationship with the complainant, while ensuring that she was consenting, learned AFP source close to the investigation. The other two suspects have not amended their initial version. The three men are police officers of the bis, a service specializing in difficult interventions and high-risk stops. A judicial investigation for "rape in a meeting" and "modification of a place of crime" should be opened. The three policemen are suspected of away socks and glasses of the young woman.

 

 

 

 

A confrontation with the young woman was scheduled for Saturday but it would have left the France to return to Canada, says Betty. The victim said she was raped in the offices of the judicial police, that deny police officers. In her complaint, she telling would talk have been forced to make a blowjob to the master that made him enter the building, reported release. She then was allegedly raped by the captain and three other officers. DNA samples have been taken at the complaint. According to police unions, the first analyses conclude an absence of traces of violence. The results of the DNA samples could be known Saturday. They must determine if the young woman had sexual intercourse with one or more of the police. But the young woman would have indicated that officials had were "protected with condoms.

 

"Terrible for the reputation of the 36.

 

The '36' quai des Orfèvres was Friday "in shock" after the placement in custody of four of its police officers, suspected of rape in the breast even the mythical Paris judicial police headquarters. ' Is a hard time to live for 36 policemen, because whatever happens, and regardless of the outcome of this case, its image may suffer, and for a while ", confided to AFP an investigator on condition of anonymity. "It is terrible for the reputation of the 36, and terribly unfair," agrees another officer.

 

This case "extremely serious if the facts are true" according to a senior police official, caused a wave of shock in this institution. Its impact seems at the height of the image of excellence enjoyed by the judicial police. If a rape could well take place in the premises of the 36, one of the most emblematic places of the police, this case is "still more sensitive," says a former head of the PJ. It affects most importantly one of the most prestigious services, bis, former anti-gang, which are from the police questioned.

 

However, many call for caution. "Really need to wait for the investigation to find out what really happened", insists a source at the Ministry of the Interior. But, she acknowledges, "even for coming after an evening at the premises of the PJ may result in penalties. The IGPN was seized by the prefecture of police of an administrative investigation into the facts.