In France, the criticism of the police continues after the publication of a brutal video. “These police officers didn’t screw up, they are criminals who have committed serious crimes. You hit my client several times for almost seven minutes, ”said the lawyer Hafida El Ali today to the broadcaster BFM TV. The background is a video published yesterday in which several police officers apparently attack a music producer in the entrance of his production studio.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin had then stated that the officers should be dismissed if wrongdoing was found. You have been suspended and the incident is under investigation. Only at the beginning of the week had the brutal evacuation of a refugee camp in Paris caused indignation. Darmanin now has to explain the latest incidents in the National Assembly on Monday.
Politicians and athletes reacted in horror
In an interview with Franceinfo, the music producer’s lawyer said that her client was doing better now. But he panics a little when he sees police vehicles near his studio. She is certain that if the surveillance camera in the studio hadn’t filmed the incident, her client would now be in jail. „From the start he was accused of ‚violence against a public official‘ and ‚rebellion‘,“ she said. The police lied shamelessly.
Numerous politicians, but also athletes, were shocked after the video was published. The French footballers Antoine Griezmann and Kylian Mbappe expressed their horror on the short message service Twitter. „Stop racism,“ wrote Mbappe. The black music producer stated that he had been racially insulted by the police several times.
