Alexis Baudelin
ON THE RECORD · 5 verbatim quotes · every quote source-verified
“It’s an experience that can be deeply traumatic and is completely out of proportion.”
Alexis Baudelin · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-08
Baudelin said the experience of police custody can be deeply traumatic and out of proportion for the young detainees.
“It politicizes you at an incredible speed,”
Alexis Baudelin · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-08
A Paris attorney representing more than a dozen youngsters taken into custody described how the experience rapidly politicizes young protesters.
“Being locked up for hours and hours with nothing, in cells that are for the most part extremely unsanitary, in police stations that smell terrible, where you can’t sleep, with police officers telling you that if you don’t talk, if you don’t tell the truth, threatening you, telling you that your life is going to be ruined,”
Alexis Baudelin · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-08
Baudelin described the conditions his young clients experienced while locked up in police custody.
“For many of them — for all of them — this was one of the first times that they’d taken part in a demonstration, coming together in a public space to voice demands they considered legitimate.”
Alexis Baudelin · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-08
Baudelin noted that for most of his young clients, this was among the first demonstrations they had joined.
“unrestrained violence from the police.”
Alexis Baudelin · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-08
Baudelin said his young clients have had a crash course in unrestrained police violence.