A French police officer in Carcassonne (a city in southern France) has been placed under formal investigation after a video emerged showing him grabbing a 29-year-old man named Yousef by the shoulders and slamming him to the ground during a noise complaint call on 21 June. Yousef died 13 days later from a drug overdose, though prosecutors say no causal link between the incident and his death has been established. The footage was released in the wake of a separate scandal involving the same local force, in which another officer accidentally recorded over six hours of racist, homophobic, and misogynistic conversations on his body camera — reigniting a broader national debate about police brutality and discrimination in France, following high-profile cases including the 2023 fatal shooting of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk.