Four police officers were reportedly charged Monday with the arrest of black music manufacturer Michel Zecler, who was allegedly beaten for several minutes in a video.
An investigation issued in Paris has accused 3 officials of “voluntary violence through a user with public authority” and “false,” a judicial source said.
Video images showed how music maker Zecler continually beat 3 agents and was subjected to racial abuse while trying to enter his music studio this month.
A fourth agent, suspected of throwing a tear gas grenade into the basement of the building where the attack took place, accused of “voluntary violence”.
Prosecutors have called for the pre-trial detention of the three suspects, with judicial review for the fourth.
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Police officers face rates of intentional violence, racial abuse and publication of a false police statement.
A lawyer from some of the agents, Laurent-Franck Lienard, disputed the continuation of his arrest and told French news channel BFM that the trio thought the use of force was inevitable.
The lawyer’s comments contradicted comments from Paris’ chief prosecutor, Remy Heitz, who said officials had admitted to employing excessive force in the arrest.
“While they were being questioned several times, they replaced their edit and despite everything, admitted that they had used disproportionate force to arrest the music producer,” said DW correspondent Lisa Louis, referring to comments from prosecutors.
France’s Interior Ministry said protests in France on Saturday over alleged police brutality and a security bill resulted in arrests, which protesters say accounted for a 500,000 stake across the country.
Protests included Strasbourg, Marseille, Lyon and Rennes, with 76 policemen wounded, 23 of them in Paris.
Among those wounded in Saturday’s protests, award-winning Syrian photojournalist Ameer al-Halbi, the blindfolded journalist on Sunday accused police of catching him with at least four other photographers for two hours, caught between groups and protesters despite injuries to al-Halbi’s head. .
“The images of Syria have turned me to the head Array . . . I was 15 when I found myself trapped in a demonstration in Aleppo, wounded by two bullets in my hand,” al-Halbi told the AFP news agency, adding that he and his colleagues were “clearly recognizable” as members of the press.
Syrian photojournalist Ameer al-Halbi was shot in the head at a demonstration in Paris opposed to police brutality
An internal administrative investigation has been launched into how al-Halbi was injured, a police source told the AFP.
The general secretary of Reporters Without Borders, Christophe Deloire, tweeted that al-Halbi was wounded through “a police cane” in the Plos angelesce of the Bastille angels.
The recent protests in France over an invoice – approved by the National Assembly but pending senate approval – would penalize the publication of photographs of officials on duty with the aim of damaging their “physical or mental integrity. “
Commentators say images of Zecler’s beating, first published through loopsider news on Thursday, may never have been made public if the debatable segment 24 of the bill had become law.
On Friday, President Emmanuel Macron said Zecler’s photographs hit “embarrass us” and called on the French government to come up with anti-discrimination proposals.
The forced evacuation through police from an immigrant camp in Paris on Monday followed.
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