While four police officers were indicted as part of the investigation into the beating of producer Michel Zecler, two of them were remanded in custody.

At the microphone of Europe 1, Fabien Vanhemelryck, secretary general of the Alliance union, criticizes this decision, and believes that justice has yielded to media and political pressure.  

For the Alliance union, the decision does not pass.

As part of the investigation around the beating of black producer Michel Zecler, the four police officers involved were indicted and two of them imprisoned.

This pre-trial detention was requested by the prosecution "in consideration of the exceptional and persistent disturbance, the gravity of the offense, the extent of the damage caused, and to avoid any risk of consultation between the perpetrators".

But Fabien Vanhemelryck, the general secretary of the union, denounces a choice "quite simply scandalous". 

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"One can wonder if the justice is really independent or not", lashes the trade unionist, according to which justice "underwent media pressure and especially political".

And to hammer: "This is not normal."

According to Fabien Vanhemelryck, pre-trial detention is all the more unjustified as the police officers involved "never had any concern with the law. They were civil servants with excellent service records". 

"The colleagues are sickened"

"We put them in detention when they were not going to run away, not to create a public disorder, not to put pressure on the witnesses," he continues.

"There was no need to detain them."

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And to believe him, this decision of the examining magistrate struck the whole of the profession.

"In the police stations, colleagues are disgusted," says Fabien Vanhemelryck.

"Every day, they see for themselves that they are calling out thugs who are constantly left free. And finally, our two colleagues, who have assumed certain faults, find themselves in detention when they should never be. . "