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Violence against a producer: the first police statements scrutinized

2020-11-29T05:39:31.908Z


Four police officers were taken into custody this Friday after the beating suffered by Michel Z. IGPN investigators analyzed


"Get out of there, dirty nigger."

These are the words that three police officers from the Territorial Contact Brigade (BTC) of the 17th arrondissement would have launched at Michel Z., while they were trying to verbalize him on Saturday evening, because this 41-year-old music producer was not wearing a mask. outdoors against Covid-19.

This banal control slipped in a few minutes into a probable police "blunder", the images of which shocked even the ranks of the police.

The judicial investigation is being carried out with full force: the three police officers were taken into custody this Friday, November 27 at the beginning of the afternoon by investigators from the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) for "violence by person holding public authority, in a meeting, with weapon and of a racist nature, and forgery in public writing ”.

The suspicions of racism are based mainly on the complaint of Michel Z. A fourth police officer was also taken into custody for the use of a grenade.

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With the help of the video surveillance of the recording studio - devoid of sound - where the facts occurred and by confronting the hearings of the police officers, witnesses and Michel Z., the "police force" tries to understand how the The situation escalated in about ten minutes and determined whether the police disguised their arrest report to cover up a gratuitous beating.

"By himself, he managed to contain all three of us"

The day after the muscular arrest, the three police officers delivered a first version of the altercation to their colleagues at the 16th century police station.

They file a complaint against Michel Z. for "rebellion" and "violence".

Complaint which will be closed without continuation, because of the doubts on the sincerity of their testimonies and the appearance of the compromising images.

That evening, the three officials patrolled in a screen-printed car in the Place des Ternes sector (17th century Paris).

Shortly after 6.30 p.m., they saw Michel Z. walking without a mask on his face.

They decide, they say in their minutes of hearing that the Parisian-Today in France has consulted, to control it and to verbalize it.

"The individual progresses on the avenue […], but constantly turns around to check our presence", begins Aurélien L., 23, a police officer in civilian clothes that evening.

According to their story, Michel Z., who would smell "narcotics", hastens the step, refuses to stop and launches: "Why are you controlling me?

!

".

Arrived in front of the victim's studio, Aurélien L. and Philippe T., 44-year-old peacekeeper, claim that Michel Z. "drags them by force" into the entrance hall, despite "their greater number".

However, the video seems to show that they come back after the victim and try to bring her out of the room.

A few seconds later, in any case, Pierre P., 31, driver of the patrol car, arrives in the studio and joins the fray: “[Michel Z.] was virulent

(...)

.

I saw that Aurélien L. was trying to make an arm lock for the individual but could not do it

(...)

, I tried to grab his left leg

(...)

, I punched the side of his head twice.

I would like to point out that the man is very stout, that he is very sturdy and he alone managed to contain the three of us ”.

Here again, the images seem to show no violent attitude of Michel Z.

A shower of blows

In a careful description of the 16 minutes and 26 seconds of footage from the studio's security camera, an investigator, tasked with making a first analysis of the video, describes attempts at arm locks while “Michel Z. bottom of the airlock "and" is surrounded by the rear "by Aurélien L." While I was choking, the individual lifted me from the ground by bending forward and using his right arm. seized the butt of my weapon on several occasions, but in vain, continues Aurélien L., that the producer will rename “the small aggressive” vis-a-vis the investigators.

Michel Z., him, disputes such an initiative, and the investigator in charge of the video does not mention it more.

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The video shows that at this moment, Pierre P. jumps on the bent back of Michel Z. who is gesticulating, while Philippe T. hits him twice on the upper body with his radio.

A frightful rain of blows then fell on Michel Z. who, according to the investigator, "does not allow himself to be controlled in any way, but does not deal any blow to the police officers": punches in the back, in the face, kicking.

On the images appears even a head butt in the face, struck by the police officer Pierre P. In three minutes, and according to a count of the investigator who exploited the video surveillance, ten punches are struck at Michel Z..

"We invited him to let it go"

In their statements, the three police officers recognize very little, but assure that Michel Z. was "insensitive" to their "professional technical gestures", so that the producer "hits them".

"At this stage, we were still trying to control him quietly, we invited him to let go and give his hands", explains Pierre P. Michel Z., he said to have let himself be done and to have heard racist insults .

At the end of the airlock, the police try to keep a door closed.

Behind, young adults who were recording in the studio, attracted by the cries of the producer, try to force entry.

"Son of p ..., we are going to screw you, you are dead", said to have heard a peacekeeper.

Pierre P. deploys his telescopic baton.

“I dealt several blows to the individual.

(...)

who grabbed my telescopic with both hands, but I put up resistance.

Despite this, he managed to handle my telescopic handler causing me severe pain in my right wrist, ”says the policeman.

The investigator in charge of the video notes for her part: "Pierre P. strikes twice with his telescopic baton on the top of Michel Z.'s head, then passes this same baton to Aurélien L.", who "hits him" twice on the top of the head ”.

Michel Z., he says to have "maintained a few seconds the baton", while the investigator in charge of the images considers that he "tries to seize the baton in vain".

Six new blows of batons inflicted by Aurélien L. are finally recorded.

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The back door opens, the "little ones", as Michel Z calls them, burst into the airlock, the police retreat into the street, the door is closed.

In the street, police reinforcements are there.

One of them is Hugues R., 35 years old.

“A colleague said

we need gas

”.

The young peacekeeper offers an MP7 smoke grenade: “I unpin the grenade, I slipped it through the door that the colleagues kept ajar.

It exploded in the room.

Hugues R. was also taken into custody this Friday.

The scene of violence will continue in the street, still under the watchful eye of cameras.

A few days later, the broadcast of the images by the Loopsider media triggered a political storm.

Source: leparis

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