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Friday, November 27, 2020
Police video shocks France
Macron shocked by “embarrassing” images
A video about a new case of police violence in France continues to cause outrage in the highest circles: President Macron is also shocked by the brutal police attack on a black man. But that’s not the only reason he and his interior minister are under pressure.
Following outrage over a new case of police violence against a black man in France, President Emmanuel Macron has spoken of “unacceptable aggression”. He called on the government to present proposals to fight discrimination “more effectively”. The recordings of policemen who had beaten and abused a black music producer in his Paris studio were “shameful,” Macron criticized in a statement posted on online networks.
Victim, not aggressor: According to his lawyer, first-name music producer Michel would now be in custody without the video.
(Photo: dpa)
“France must never allow hatred or racism to flourish,” Macron said. He called for an “exemplary police force.” Macron had previously been “shocked” by video footage of the attack. He called on his Interior Minister, Gérald Daramanin, to impose clear sanctions on police officers involved in the violence.
The music producer was beaten, kicked and racially insulted by the police about a week ago. Subsequently, four officers were suspended and taken into custody. You must expect criminal consequences. Police officers told investigators that the producer did not wear a corona protective mask on the street and resisted.
Soccer star Mbappé calls video “unbearable”
The case had caused horror throughout France. Among others, French soccer star and world champion Kylian Mbappé turned against racism, describing the images of the crime as “unbearable video, unbearable violence.” In uppercase he added “Stop Racism”. He posted a photo of the music producer’s bruised face.
The producer, whose first name was Michel, said the police attacked him for no reason. “You said ‘dirty black’ several times and you beat me,” he said in front of the Paris police inspection, where he filed a complaint with his lawyer.
Interior Minister Darmanin accused the police of “dirtying the uniform of the republic.” The Paris police had already come under fire this week for its brutal use against refugees. Paris police prefect Didier Lallement and his employer Darmanin are therefore under pressure, calls for their resignation are loud from the opposition.
Darmanin also faces massive protests from journalists’ associations and left-wing activists. He has again called demonstrations against a law planned for “comprehensive security” on Saturday. The Interior Minister wants to criminalize explosive recordings of police operations.
Again protests against planned movie ban law
The German Association of Journalists (DJV) called on the SPD’s Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas to defend press freedom in France on behalf of the German EU Presidency. The federal government should not tolerate any “attack on the rights of liberty,” declared DJV president Frank Überall. The EU Commission and the UN had already warned France.
The restriction of the traditional 1881 press freedom law causes controversy in the ranks of Macron’s La République en Marche (The Republic on the Move, LREM) party: due to protests from journalists, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced for the first Once a new version of the controversial movie ban article by independent experts. to.
This, however, called to the scene the president of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand. He vigorously protested an extra-parliamentary correction to the bill, which the French lower house had approved at first reading on Tuesday. Prime Minister Castex later withdrew his proposal. The controversial bill comes next for Senate deliberation.
