"I did nothing to deserve that": the producer beaten up by the police officers tells

His case revives the debate on police violence.

Thursday, the black music producer beaten up by police officers in Paris last Saturday, went to lodge a complaint with the IGPN, the "police force", with his lawyer.

And took the opportunity to come back to the facts, ensuring in particular that the police had also uttered racist insults. 

The images published Thursday by the site

show this black man called "Michel" who undergoes a volley of beatings inflicted by the police officers while he is at the entrance of a music studio in the XVIIe district of Paris.

Michel explains that he was returning to his studio when this happened.

"They didn't mean anything to me. They came up behind me. I think indeed they followed me. They were close to me when I opened my door. They scared me. I followed myself. turned around. I saw a guy in civilian clothes. Then I saw a policeman. " 

It happened on Saturday in Paris.

15 minutes of racist beatings and insults.

The crazy scene of police violence that we reveal is simply amazing and uplifting.

We have to look at it to the end to understand the full extent of the problem.

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"Of course I was scared"

"I did not put a punch," he says today, relating racist insults from the police.

"I've been told 'dirty nigger' several times and punched me." 

"It was so difficult to live ... Of course I was afraid", confides the victim to the microphone of Europe 1. "I have my phone in my hand, a policeman who points me, who is hiding . What does that mean, does that mean that we are going to shoot as soon as we have an angle? " 

"The people who have to protect me are pointing me"

"The people who have to protect me hold me up", insists Michel, "I did nothing to deserve that".

Today, the producer wants "just that these three people there are punished by the law".

"We have good justice in France, it exists", he continues, estimating "to have had the chance, unlike others, to have videos which protect me, because otherwise, I would not be in front of you today". 

Beyond his personal case, Michel therefore wants his story to be used to prevent such violence from happening again.

"I wish it didn't happen again for anyone. Camera or no camera, that shouldn't happen."

An investigation was opened by the Paris prosecutor's office and entrusted to the IGPN.

The three police officers involved were suspended.