Police officers who beat black man causing serious injuries spared jail | World News

Three police officers have been spared prison after leaving a black man with ‘serious anal injuries’ after a stop and search arrest.

Théodore Luhaka – who had no criminal record – had a promising career in football and was about to relocate to Belgium to join a club until the unprecedented violence during an identity check.

A trial into his case was told that he was assaulted with a police baton, which left his anus perforated and him incontinent.

The 29-year-old is still suffering the consequences of that blow inflicted on him in 2017 in the Paris suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois.

What happened to him has since turned into one of France’s most high-profile cases of abuse in the hands of police and sparked two weeks of riots in the capital.

Protesters gathered outside the court as the three police officers who stopped Mr Luhaka were on trial, chanting for them to be jailed.

But Marc-Antoine Castelain, Jeremie Dulin, and Tony Hochart were convicted of voluntary violence on Friday and were handed suspended prison sentences.

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.

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