<picture class="article__media"> <img src="https://img.lemde.fr/2024/01/19/0/0/3889/2904/664/0/75/0/d72f7b9_5386197-01-06.jpg" alt="Images Le Monde.fr" width="100%" height="auto"> </picture> <noscript> <img src="https://img.lemde.fr/2024/01/19/0/0/3889/2904/664/0/75/0/d72f7b9_5386197-01-06.jpg" alt="This court sketch made on January 9, 2024, at the criminal court in Bobigny, a northern suburb of Paris, during the first day of the trial, shows the three police officers who appear, L-to-R, Marc-Antoine Castelain, 34, Jeremie Dulin, 42, and Tony Hochart, 31, over the violent arrest in 2017 of Frenchman Theodore Luhaka (3rd on the right), 28."> </noscript> <figcaption class="article__legend" aria-hidden="true">This court sketch made on January 9, 2024, at the criminal court in Bobigny, a northern suburb of Paris, during the first day of the trial, shows the three police officers who appear, L-to-R, Marc-Antoine Castelain, 34, Jeremie Dulin, 42, and Tony Hochart, 31, over the violent arrest in 2017 of Frenchman Theodore Luhaka (3rd on the right), 28. BENOIT PEYRUCQ / AFP </figcaption>

A French court on Friday, January 19, handed down suspended jail sentences to three officers in a rare case of alleged police brutality after a Black French man suffered irreversible rectal injuries.

After more than nine hours of deliberation, policeman Marc-Antoine Castelain, who was found guilty of the truncheon blow that seriously injured Theo Luhaka, received a 12-month suspended prison sentence and a five-year prohibition from exercising his profession in public. His colleagues Jeremie Dulin and Tony Hochart received 3-month suspended prison sentences for intentional violence. Suspended sentences of up to three years' imprisonment had been sought by the prosecution.

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The three officers were accused of committing several brutal acts during a police identity check on February 2, 2017, on Théo Luhaka, then aged 22 years, a young man who has come to symbolize police violence in France.

French policemen receive suspended sentences in police brutality case

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