American recordsdata grievance towards law enforcement officials | EUROtoday
Get real time updates directly on you device, subscribe now.
NOTAndrew Frias Diaz, a 35-year-old American-Chilean, filed a grievance towards law enforcement officials after being arrested exterior an Olympic Games occasion, stories The Parisian August 4. The information date again to July 30, the day the person went to a water polo match between France and Japan on the aquatic heart. That's when he determined to wave an Israeli flag and take a photograph. “My mother is a Cuban Jew,” he defined to the Parisian. This gesture allegedly prompted three law enforcement officials to verify his identification. “They asked me why I was taking this photo, they took my phone to look in it. I showed them my ticket,” continues the thirty-year-old. After this primary verify, Neil Andrew Frias Diaz heads into the queue to enter the aquatic heart.
“Ten minutes later, five other police officers came upon me. They told me I was being arrested. I asked why, one of them said I was resisting,” defined the American, who recounts being dragged and pulled by the toes to the police automobile. He was then held in custody for 27 hours on the Saint-Denis police station, throughout which he was allegedly not allowed to inform his kin or communicate to a lawyer. The vacationer was additionally allegedly not allowed to see a health care provider. He was then launched with a summons to look in courtroom for a prison order for “putting up violent resistance” and “forcibly or fraudulently entering a sports venue” whereas intoxicated, scheduled for November 26.
Olympic Games that “turned into a nightmare”
Eric Mathais, public prosecutor of Bobigny, informed the Parisian that “the Bobigny public prosecutor's office was not informed of a possible complaint for unlawful violence.” Neil Andrew additionally claims that he was not drunk, however the public prosecutor's workplace stories 1.34 g of alcohol per liter of blood.
According to the thirty-year-old's lawyer, his consumer is shocked and has issue sleeping. “The only thing he did was take out an Israeli flag. It was a France-Japan match, there were no Iranian supporters milling around, for example. These are extremely serious and worrying events,” laments David Cazeneuve. “These Olympic Games have turned into a nightmare for me,” confides Neil Andrew Frias Diaz.
https://www.lepoint.fr/monde/jo-2024-un-americain-porte-plainte-contre-des-policiers-04-08-2024-2567166_24.php