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A new case of police violence, for which four agents have been suspended after the

and which was recorded by several security cameras, shakes the highest levels of the State in France.

In full debate on the controversial bill "Global Security", which represses the dissemination of images of police officers during his speeches, the Interior Minister,

, announced the "suspension" of the agents accused in this case of violence

The images published by the Loopsider website show the blows that three policemen

on the

music producer

on

at the entrance of a music studio in Paris.

French President Emmanuel Macron is "very shocked" by the images and met yesterday with Darmanin, whom he asked to take action against the policemen in question, government sources told AFP.

After this meeting, the minister announced the suspension of the four agents involved in this case of police violence

"They called me a shitty black several times while they beat me

," reported the victim, who filed a complaint at the Paris headquarters of the General Inspection of the National Police (IGPN).

"People who must protect me attack me (...), I have not done anything to deserve this," he told the press.

Initially three officers were suspended.

A fourth, who arrived as reinforcements and who is

, was also suspended, a police source close to the case informed AFP at night.

Darmanin, who will appear next Monday before the Law committee of the National Assembly (Parliament), said on public television that these policemen had

Justice Minister

said he was "scandalized by these images" and acknowledged that if there had been no images "this case would not have been known".

settled.

The leader of the Insumisos (leftist opposition),

, has seen in this "terrible proof of the crucial nature of the right to film police action."

He was referring to article 24 of the "Global Security" bill, which criminalizes the malicious dissemination of the image of law enforcement agencies.

The text, which was adopted by the National Assembly on Tuesday and must be examined by the Senate, has generated lively controversy in recent days.

Said article

(53,600 dollars) of fine the diffusion of the "image of the face or any other identifying element" of the members of the forces of order in action, when "attentive" to their "physical or psychological integrity".

While the police unions, the right and the extreme right approve it, the left and the defenders of public liberties see in said law a "disproportionate offense" to the freedom to inform and a sign of the authoritarian drift of the Presidency of Emmanuel Macron .

The prime minister,

, announced yesterday the creation of an "independent commission to be in charge of proposing a new wording" of the article, which he intends to submit to the Constitutional Council for a verdict.

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