Paris (AFP)
The four police officers who are the subject of an investigation by the police after the images of beating of a music producer in Paris are summoned this Friday to be heard under the police custody regime, he said. we learned from concordant sources.
The four men, suspended since Thursday from their functions, are expected in the premises of the IGPN, in charge of this investigation opened since Tuesday for "violence" and "forgery in public writing", learned AFP from a source close to the file , confirmed by the Paris prosecutor's office.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Thursday evening that he would demand "the dismissal" of the police officers involved, "as soon as the facts are established by justice".
He accused them of having "soiled the uniform of the Republic".
Michel Zecler was initially placed in police custody as part of an investigation opened by the Paris prosecutor's office for "violence against a person holding public authority" and "rebellion".
But the Paris prosecutor's office closed this investigation and opened a new procedure on Tuesday for "violence by persons holding public authority" and "forgery in public writing", entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), the font font.
"I was told" dirty nigger "several times and punching me," the victim denounced Thursday, coming to lodge a complaint with his lawyer at the Paris headquarters of the IGPN.
"I would just like the work (of the IGPN, editor's note) to be done," he said at the end of his testimony.
"I have no doubt about it," he added.
This case comes in the midst of a controversy over a bill that governs the dissemination of images of the police in operation and after the muscular evacuation, Monday, of a migrant camp in the heart of the capital, whose images have also elicited a lot of reactions.
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