After a brutal attack, the French police are robbing a Tunisian of his masculinity

It is as if the person entering her is missing and the outside of her is a child. This is how the Tunisian young man, Ayman Barhoumi, who went to France hoping for a better life, was subjected to a brutal assault by the police there, which led to losing part of his masculinity, and perhaps eliminating his chances of childbearing In the future.

That was on December 13, when the administrative detention center in Nice, southern France, turned into “the scene of unprecedented and brutal violence,” according to the French newspaper, MediaPart.

Inside one of the halls of the detention center, where irregular foreigners are being housed for deportation, Barhoumi, 35, was brutally beaten by police, to be urgently transferred to Pasteur Hospital in Nice, where he underwent an operation that required the removal of one of his testicles.

The hospital confirmed, in a medical report, that the removal of Barhoumi's testicle was a result of "being severely beaten," according to the French newspaper.

The beginning of the tragedy

On the evening of December 12, in the vicinity of one of the famous squares of Nice, Brahoumi was present without a passport or residence card legalizing his presence illegally on French territory.

Although the police knew about Barhoumi's file, which they had previously arrested, they took him by truck to the police station, and from there he was transferred the next day to the administrative detention center in Nice.

"When I arrived (at the detention center), two policemen began to take pictures of me and record my data, and at that time they told me, 'You have come back to us,'" said Barhoumi, revealing details of his tragedy.

Brahoumi knew the policemen from a previous incident in 2018, when they stopped him in Nice and forced him to return to his country on a boat, after he was given a dose of sedatives, according to the description of the newspaper "Mediapart".

He added, "When they asked to receive my fingerprints again, they were refused, because they already have them."

Barhoumi's refusal was the beginning of an ongoing brutal assault by the two police officers.

And the young Tunisian continued: “One of them held me by the throat with one hand, while his colleague reached out to hang me on the wall, and shouted an insulting phrase to my mother. And then I replied to him on the same occasion. ”

And he added: “I salivated because of a tightness in my throat, and at that time I thought I was spitting on them. They knocked my hands behind my back after they dropped me on the ground. ”

Barhumi went on to recount his suffering by saying: "One of them broke my head with his foot on the ground, and another put his knee on my arm."

The young Tunisian also indicated that he was kicked in sensitive areas of his body, including the genitals.

After he was severely beaten, Barhoumi was transferred, handcuffed, to another building in the same administrative detention center as part of his arrest procedures on charges including "practicing violence against persons holding public authority" and "threatening to kill, contempt and insult."

False accusations

While the French police did not respond to the inquiries of the newspaper "MediaPart", the facts mentioned in the record of Burhumi's hearing, which were conducted by the General Inspectorate of Police on December 18, claimed that Barhoumi “refused to wear the mask of opinion, insulted the police, and threatened that his brother would slaughter them. In addition to spitting at the police, shouting the phrase Corona virus.

The report stated that the policemen had to deal violently with Barhoumi in response to his attempt to hit one of them in the head.

Barhoumi denies the police account, but the sure thing is that the doctor who examined him demanded that he be transferred to the hospital's emergency room due to his suffering from pain in the genitals that required him to undergo surgery to remove the testicle. What may destroy his ability to have children and partially undermine his manhood.

“I feel physically tired and mentally disturbed,” said Barhoumi, following the police violence.

The Tunisian youth filed an official complaint against the police with the help of the (non-governmental) Refugee Forum, which assists detainees awaiting deportation in the administrative detention center.

According to the French newspaper, Barhoumi won the first round in his case against the Nice police, with the issuance of a decision to release him. He is now free.

However, the young Tunisian is still threatened with a deportation decision issued against him by a court with a ban on returning to France during the next two years, despite his lawyer submitting an appeal against the decision.