In 2016, a Bastia supporter was blinded by a truncheon by a police officer. The latter “regrets what happened”.
The former BAC policeman tried at the assizes for having knocked out a Bastia supporter with a truncheon after a match in Reims in 2016, apologized Thursday, assuring that he “regret what happened».
«I became a policeman to protect, I didn’t mean to destroy his life“Launches at the bar of the Assizes of the Marne the defendant, now 50 years old, small beard and plaid shirt.
«I am well aware that the life of (the victim’s editor’s note) has been turned upside down, for me too it is a change“said in a strangled voice this man, who is no longer fit to carry a weapon for medical reasons.
Now a police officer in a police station in Reims, he challenged Tuesday at the opening of the trial the “willful violence“, claiming to have acted in a proportionate manner, obeying orders. In the morning, the young supporter, Maxime Beux, who lost his left eye, had accused the police of having wanted “to make the Bastiais».
The supporter rejected the hostility of his group of ultra Corsican men, reported the day before by a police witness. “There are invectives that leave from both sidessaid Mr. Beux, finally acknowledging, “It is not excluded that I made comments that I should not have“. At the time studying management at Corte, he was banned from the stadium in 2014 for throwing a bottle at a CRS. He will be again in 2017, for having participated in a descent of Bastia supporters on the lawn during a match with Lyon.
After the match in Reims, when the group goes to the city center instead of leaving by bus, to go for a drink, he says.the police officers of the BAC, windows open, make their presence felt» in the following «closely“, he recalls. For him, the policewanted to get the Bastiais right“. When the president of the assize court reminds him that police vehicles were targeted by a rocket, M Beux concedes a “very regrettable».
Recounting the circumstances of his injury, the telescopic truncheon blow, he evokes “absolutely indescribable pain“. He then describes the daily care required by his prosthesis. Maxime Beux regrets that “during two years“, the “official version corroborated by the prefect of Marne and Bernard Cazeneuve“, then Minister of the Interior, attributed his injury to a fall on a pole.
He hopes that werende justicebut says don’tnothingexpect from the accused. The verdict is expected Friday.
