Loopsider journalist David Perrotin, who revealed the beating of black music producer Michel Zecler by the police, will join Mediapart's corporate service on Monday, he announced in the columns of
Télérama
.
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His video, seen more than 14 million times on Twitter alone since its publication by Loopsider last Thursday, has aroused excitement and anger, in the midst of controversy around the proposed “global security” law and its article 24 punishing malicious dissemination images of police officers in operation.
Is it this scoop that allowed him to be hired by Mediapart, the news site co-founded by Edwy Plenel?
"Not at all"
, replied David Perrotin to
Télérama
, assuring that his recruitment was
"stalled"
for
"several weeks"
.
"My contract with (the 100% video online media) Loopsider, for whom I produced one video per week, ended at the end of November",
said the investigative journalist, announcing to start
"in Mediapart on December 7"
.
This former
JDD,
Rue89 and Buzzfeed France will join there
"the service society to cover police violence, but not only"
, he added.
It was he who revealed in the summer of 2019 that the Defender of Rights had taken action to open an investigation into the disappearance of young Steve Maia Caniço in Nantes during the Fête de la Musique, against the backdrop of a police operation controversial.
Four police officers indicted
Following the dissemination of images showing Michel Zecler badly beaten, four police officers were indicted last weekend, including three for
"willful violence by person holding public authority (PDAP)"
, with specific circumstances aggravating including
“racist comments”
.
Article 24 of the “Global Security” bill, against which between 133,000 and 500,000 people demonstrated in France on Saturday, is currently neutralized, pending its possible integration into the “separatism” and fight bill. against "radical Islam", presented on December 9 in the Council of Ministers.
