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A Maltese police sergeant has been caught on camera violently kicking an elderly French lady in the upper torso and neck, knocking her senseless for more than three minutes.
The grim four-minute video clip, from which these stills were lifted, was taken from the balcony of an apartment in St George’s Road, St Julian’s, on Thursday 17 May in the middle of the afternoon. The footage was subsequently passed on to MaltaToday on strict condition of confidentiality. The video-clip opens abruptly with the close-up of a heated argument between the female driver (aged approximately 70) of a French-registered Nissan, and a somewhat heavily built police sergeant, estimated to be in his mid-forties. From the outset, the elderly lady appears agitated because the police sergeant had planted himself in the way of her shutting her car door. For his part, the sergeant is seen talking on his mobile phone and ignoring the lady’s repeated attempts to move him out of the way.
Investigations carried out by this newspaper later revealed that the lady had attracted police attention by hooting repeatedly at a coach which had blocked the road for several minutes. It also transpired that she did not speak English fluently, and insisted on speaking to the policeman in French. However, it is not at all clear from the video why the police sergeant reacted with such brutal force to the lady’s feeble attempts to move him out of the way: an act of aggression which is doubly anomalous, when you consider the age and gender of the victim.
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