The Paris police chief on Sunday called for an internal administrative investigation following the broadcast on social networks of a video showing a policeman hitting a man on Saturday.
The Paris police chief on Sunday called for an internal administrative investigation following the broadcast on social networks of a video showing a police officer hitting a man on the avenue des Champs-Elysées on Saturday. “A video is currently circulating on social networks following a police intervention on the Champs-Elysées. The prefect is having an internal administrative investigation launched,” tweeted the police headquarters. This video shows a member of the security forces going towards a man and hitting him with a truncheon on the head, before leaving. The man has a head wound.
The police proceeded on Saturday in Paris to 97 arrests and 513 verbalizations of opponents of health measures participating in the operation called “freedom convoys”, according to an overall assessment communicated on Sunday by the Paris police headquarters. In a tweet, the police headquarters added “maintain its device this Sunday” to prevent demonstrators from anti-pass convoys from blocking the capital. During the night from Saturday to Sunday, the police intervened, according to the PP, in the Champs-Elysées district and in the Bois de Boulogne to “verbalize and disperse” the last participants in this demonstration prohibited by the prefect police, Didier Lallement.
At the beginning of the afternoon on Saturday, more than a hundred vehicles had managed to reach the Champs-Elysées, which were gradually evacuated by the police with tear gas.
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