After the brutal police operation against a black music producer in Paris, the four police officers involved were accused by the judiciary. An official investigation was initiated against the officials because of “willful violence” by an official and “false statement”, as the AFP news agency learned from the judiciary today. Accordingly, two police officers were arrested, the other two were released from custody subject to conditions.
The music producer Michel Zecler was beaten and kicked by police about a week ago, as shown by a surveillance camera that caused horror across the country. He claims that they also racially insulted him. The four officers were then temporarily suspended and taken into custody. One of them is charged with throwing a tear gas grenade into the building where the attack took place. He was charged with „willful violence“.
Serious allegations
In a protocol, the four police officers stated that the producer did not wear a coronavirus protective mask on the street and then attacked. However, the video images only show how the police hit the producer in the face, kick him and beat him with the baton.
Zecler himself said the police attacked him for no reason. “They said ‚dirty negro‘ several times and beat me up,” he said when his lawyer filed a complaint against the police. The case had caused horror across France. After soccer stars like Antoine Griezmann and Kylian Mbappe, President Emmanuel Macron was also appalled by the video images. On Saturday, more than a hundred thousand people across the country took to the streets against police violence.
