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French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday expressed shock over footage showing Paris police beating an African-American music producer, the Elysee said, at a time of mounting pressure over the incident.
The Elysee reported on Friday that the French president Emmanuel macron “Very shocked” by photos showing Paris police beating up an African-American music producer.
On Thursday, Macron held talks with Interior Minister Girral Darmanan to call for the punishment of the police officers who participated in the beating of Michel Zilker at the end of last week, according to a French government source.
It was done Four police officers arrested He stopped working after the production company was suspected of being beaten in an incident filmed by many cameras that generated controversy at the highest levels of the French state.
Zilker appeared in the footage published by the “Lopsider” website, being beaten up by the police at the entrance to a music studio in Paris.
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“I was told several times by an unclean black man while they beat me,” said the victim, who filed a complaint at the headquarters of the Inspector General of the National Police.
According to the minutes of the incident, seen by the French News Agency, the three police officers intervened on Saturday to try to arrest Zeclair because he was not wearing a muzzle. “While trying to intercept him, we forcibly crawled into the building,” they said.
In CCTV footage from the studio, the three officers are shown entering the studio, holding the man and then hitting, kicking or hitting him with a baton.
In the same footage, he sees the producer resisting his arrest and then tries to protect his face and body. The shot lasted five minutes.
Police tried to force the door open and a fourth police officer threw a tear gas can into the study.
France 24 / AFP
