Badge Of Dishonor: The Fight Against Police Impunity
Filming Locations
Lausanne, Canton of Vaud (fatal police interventions).
Village in Nigeria (burial of Chemisier, testimony of his widow Princess).
Valencia, Spain (testimony of Bridget, widow of Mike Ben Peter).
Strasbourg, France (mentioned, European Court of Human Rights).
Main Contributors
Simonetta, Princess's lawyer.
Olivier Beauceron, Commander of Lausanne Police.
Grégoire Juneau, Mayor of Lausanne.
Christian Favre, lawyer defending police officers under investigation.
Ludovic Ellis, criminal lawyer defending Enzo's family.
Elliot Paz, researcher for Border Forensic, investigative agency on human rights violations.
Marc Gerber, head of Geneva's General Inspection of Services.
Eric Carlton Rider, Vaud Chief Public Prosecutor.
Key Issues
Investigation into five Black men who died following interactions with Vaud police in ten years, a Swiss record.
Scandal of racist WhatsApp groups involving around fifty Lausanne police officers.
Systemic racism within Lausanne police forces.
Flaws in investigations conducted by police on themselves, questioning the impartiality of the judicial system.
Key Figures
Approximately 500 pages of WhatsApp messages containing racist, antisemitic and sexist content.
The special unit investigating these misconduct cases consists of around 60 police officers, out of more than 1,000 in the canton's police force.
Quotes
Grégoire Juneau, Mayor of Lausanne: "I would like here, on behalf of the municipality, to condemn what must be described as a form of systemic racism that needs to be addressed."
Ludovic Ellis, lawyer: "When it's the police themselves who are accused, we have the feeling that the investigation is much softer."
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