The Paris prosecutor's office has requested provisional detention for three of the police officers involved in the beating of Michel Zecler.
A good decision according to his lawyer Hafida El Ali.
As part of the investigation into the beating of producer Michel Zecler, the Paris prosecutor's office has requested pre-trial detention for three police officers, Paris prosecutor Rémy Heitz said at a press conference on Sunday.
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"It is a fair decision of the prosecutor"
"Taking into account any pressure that he could have received from the police services, it is quite surprising", first entrusted Hafida El Ali, the lawyer of Michel Zecler at the microphone of Europe 1. "We are more than satisfied with this decision. It is a just decision of the magistrate of the public prosecutor's office. We hope that the judge of freedoms and detention will follow, given the seriousness of the facts with which they are accused, and as indicated by Mr. public prosecutor, disturbing public order and the risk of fraudulent consultation, "she continued.
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"There may be a disturbance of public order"
Indeed, the public prosecutor of Paris Rémy Heitz explained that the pre-trial detention of the three agents suspected of having struck the music producer had been requested to "avoid a risk of consultation between the authors or of pressure on them. witnesses ".
"They severely hit my client. There may be a disturbance of public order, given their dangerousness," concluded Hafida El Ali.