Three police officers were remade into police custody on Sunday on the orders of Paris’ chief prosecutor, Rémy Heitz, the arrest last weekend of black music manufacturer Michel Zecler, who was beaten for several minutes in video images.
Meanwhile, the French Interior Ministry said protests across France on Saturday over alleged police brutality and a security bill resulted in 81 arrests, which protest organizers said represented a turnout of another 500,000 people in the country.
Protests included Strasbourg, Marseille, Lyon and Rennes, with 76 policemen wounded, 23 of them in Paris.
Heitz said at a press conference On Sunday that the government sought out the three officials in custody to “prevent perpetrators from communicating or exerting pressure on witnesses. “
Police officers face rates of intentional violence, racial abuse and publication of a false police statement.
A fourth officer, who later arrived at Zecler’s study and threw a canister of tear fuel, will be detained, but will still be charged with intentional violence.
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A lawyer for the three police officers arrested, 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 Heitz’s comments that police had admitted to employing excessive force in the arrest.
“While being interrogated several times, they replaced their editing and nevertheless admitted that they had used disproportionate force to arrest the music producer,” DW correspondent Lisa Louis said, referring to comments from prosecutors.
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.
Forced evacuation continued through police from a migrant camp in Paris on Monday.
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