An "unacceptable aggression" denounced by Emmanuel Macron.
While the controversy rages after the beating of the black producer Michel Zecler by the police, the French president denounced, Friday, November 27, "images which make us ashamed", and asked the government to quickly make him proposals " to fight more effectively against all forms of discrimination ".
"France must never allow hatred or racism to flourish", underlined the head of state in a statement on social networks, asking for "an exemplary police force with the French", but also "exemplary French with the law enforcement".
"Those who enforce the law must respect the law. I will never accept that the gratuitous violence of a few taints the professionalism of women and men who, on a daily basis, ensure our protection with courage," he insists. he.
"I ask the government to quickly make proposals to me to reaffirm the bond of trust that must naturally exist between the French and those who protect them and to fight more effectively against all forms of discrimination", continues Emmanuel Macron, who is speaking for the first time. in this file.
The images we have all seen of Michel Zecler's assault are unacceptable.
They shame us.
France must never resolve to violence or brutality, wherever they come from.
France must never allow hatred or racism to flourish.
- Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) November 27, 2020
The four officers in custody
The four agents involved were placed in custody on Friday in the premises of the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), the "police police".
The Head of State received Thursday the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, to ask him to take clear sanctions against the police officers who hit the producer.
As of Thursday, they had been suspended from their functions and the Minister of the Interior had, even before their hearing, assured that he would ask for their dismissal from the police "as soon as the facts are established by justice".
Distributed on social networks by the Loopsider site, a first video, seen more than 11 million times, shows the victim, Michel Zecler, beaten for long minutes by uniformed police officers in the entrance of a studio in music from the 17th arrondissement of the capital.
A second video, revealed Friday by the same site, shows that the producer continued to be beaten outside the building, in front of other officials who arrived as reinforcements who let their colleagues do it.
Throughout the day, the shock wave continued to propagate.
After the sportsmen on Thursday, artists, such as Aya Nakamura or Mathieu Kassovitz gave their support to the producer.
"Attacked at his home by the police because he is black. You have to call a spade a spade!", Indignant rapper Stomy Bugsy.
Aged 41, Michel Zecler is well known in the hip-hop world, having been one of the producers in 2016 of the "Golden Age of French Rap" tour.
With AFP
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