Michel Zecler, a 47-year-old music producer, was heard on Tuesday, November 10, in the afternoon as a civil party before the Paris criminal court. He was testifying at the trial of three police officers accused of beating him in 2020 in Paris.
The three officers are being tried for aggravated violence and for forgery of an official document. The producer spoke on Tuesday afternoon before the court.
He was referring to the surveillance camera installed in the vestibule of his music studio. Those images recorded his beating.
Just before his testimony, the raw video was shown on the large screen in the courtroom.
In those images, he can be seen not striking the police officers, contrary to what the officers claimed in their arrest report.
The producer also described the consequences of the violence he suffered: craniofacial trauma, a scalp wound, and a complete tendon rupture in his left arm.