Prosecutors have opened probes into the use of violence against both a journalist and a migrant in that incident. There has already been virulent criticism of the police this week after they used tear gas late Monday to remove migrants from a camp set up in central Paris. that is exceptionally serious'.Ī close ally of President Emmanuel Macron, parliament speaker Richard Ferrand, also expressed alarm, writing on Twitter that illegitimate use of force by the police 'eroded the indispensable link of confidence between citizens and those who protect us, and must be punished without weakness'. Paris' Socialist Mayor Anne Hidalgo said she was 'profoundly shocked by an intolerable act. I just want these three people to be punished according to the law,' Michel told reporters on Thursday as he arrived at the IGPN with his lawyer to file a complaint.

'People who should have been protecting me attacked me. Loopsider said Michel had initially been stopped for not wearing a mask and subjected to racial abuse by the police.

Loopsider, which has exposed several episodes of police brutality in recent months, said that the images 'had to be seen to understand the full extent of the problem'. 'It is a very important case in my opinion and I have been following it personally,' he said. Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz told AFP that he had asked France's National Police General Inspectorate (IGPN) to shed light on what happened as quickly as possible. The man's lawyer, Hafida El Ali, told AFP that his client had been detained for 48 hours on the basis of 'lies by the police who had outrageously aggressed him'. 'I am asking the chief of police to suspend on an interim basis the police officers concerned,' Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin wrote on Twitter. But prosecutors threw out the probe and instead opened an investigation against the police officers themselves for committing violence while in a position of authority. The man was himself initially arrested for violence and failure to obey the police. The incident comes after a string of high-profile probes into police violence against black and Arab citizens and as concern grows over new legislation that would restrict the right of the press to publish images of the faces of police. The images published by the online news site Loopsider showed the music producer, identified only as Michel, being repeatedly beaten as he tried to enter a music studio in the 17th district of Paris. PARIS - French authorities on Tuesday opened an investigation and ordered suspensions of police after they were filmed beating up a black music producer in central Paris in images that sparked new anger over the conduct of the security forces.

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