Overview

• Judges in Paris have set criminal proceedings for four officers accused of violently assaulting music producer Michel Zecler during a November 2020 Covid-19 mask check.
• Three officers will face the Paris criminal court on charges of forging official reports and committing voluntary violence with a weapon in reunion.
• A fourth officer is slated to appear before the correctional tribunal for launching a tear gas grenade into Zecler’s recording studio.
• Zecler was left with a ruptured biceps tendon and 45 days of total incapacity to work after an unprovoked four-minute attack.
• Investigators declined to retain a racist motive due to insufficient evidence, despite Zecler’s testimony of racial slurs.