Theodore Luhaka was assaulted with a police baton, which left his anus perforated and him incontinent, the police officers' trial heard. Protesters outside the court called for them to be jailed.
Three French police officers have been given suspended prison sentences for leaving a man with “serious anal injuries” after a stop and search arrest.
Theodore Luhaka was also teargassed and hit in the head when he was stopped by police at the age of 22 in the Paris suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois in February 2017.
The police officers who stopped him, Marc-Antoine Castelain, Jeremie Dulin, and Tony Hochart, were convicted of voluntary violence on Friday.
Castelain, who was initially charged with rape, was handed a one-year sentence, while his colleagues, who were found to have beaten Mr Luhaka, were given ones of three months.
Mr Luhaka’s lawyer Antoine Vey described the outcome as a “victory”, which “confirms Theo was a victim and nothing justifies that he was beaten”.
It comes after a 17-year-old boy, Nahel Merzouk, was shot dead by police in the Paris suburb of Nanterre in June last year.
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Three French police officers have been given suspended prison sentences for leaving a man with “serious anal injuries” after a stop and search arrest.
Theodore Luhaka was also teargassed and hit in the head when he was stopped by police at the age of 22 in the Paris suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois in February 2017.
The police officers who stopped him, Marc-Antoine Castelain, Jeremie Dulin, and Tony Hochart, were convicted of voluntary violence on Friday.
Castelain, who was initially charged with rape, was handed a one-year sentence, while his colleagues, who were found to have beaten Mr Luhaka, were given ones of three months.
Mr Luhaka’s lawyer Antoine Vey described the outcome as a “victory”, which “confirms Theo was a victim and nothing justifies that he was beaten”.
It comes after a 17-year-old boy, Nahel Merzouk, was shot dead by police in the Paris suburb of Nanterre in June last year.
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