A video showing a young man bursting into flames as he is tasered by Paris police officers has gone viral in France.
The man is seen acting erratically and resisting arrest, and can be heard goading one of the police officers to use his taser gun.
As the officer fires the stun gun, one of his colleagues sprays tear gas on the subject, which is set alight by the electric shock of the weapon.
Man on fire: The video shows the moment when a suspect is engulfed in flames after Paris police officers used a taser gun and tear gas at the same time
The footage was recorded on one of the police officers’ bodycam and shows an attempted arrest at Place de la Nation in Paris.
The suspect, seen shirtless with injuries on his arms and chest, can be heard shouting at police officers; ‘I feel like taser-ing your mother. Why don’t you taser?’
The officers reply: ‘No, I don’t want to’, and one of them hits the suspect over the legs with a baton.
Despite initial protest, the officers use a taser a the same time as a tear gas, which causes the man to be engulfed in flames.
The man, who is well over 6ft tall , collapses on the ground. The officer with the taser shouts: ‘Guys, don’t use gas! Who the f*** gassed him?!’
Anger: The man in the video, recorded on a police body camera, had been agitated and resisting arrest during the incident which took place in Paris in July 2013
Police violence: The suspect, seen shirtless with injuries on his arms and chest, can be heard shouting at police officers; ‘I feel like taser-ing your mother. Why don’t you taser?’
Hit: After stating that they do not wish to use a taser gun, one of the officers hit the suspect over the legs with a baton
One of the officers throw himself on top of the burning man to put out the flames, and he was reportedly later arrested and did not suffer any serious injury.
The video was filmed in July, 2013, but has not been seen until this week when unknown individuals posted it on Facebook and Twitter.
The force held an internal police investigation into the incident, but no action has reportedly been taken against any individual.
It is the latest in a series of films providing evidence of brutality being used by the forces of order around the city.
Burning man: Using the electroshock taser gun as tear gas had also been used causes the gas to ignite, and the suspect is engulfed in flames
Shock: One of the police officers throws himself on top of the burning man, while the officer with the stun gun, seen right, asks who used tear gas
Another video published earlier this month showed an officer repeatedly punching a 14-year-old youth in a Paris suburb, and then waving his gun at the boys’ friends.
Last year there were riots in the same area when an arrested youth had a police truncheon rammed up his anus by patrol members.
An officer was also cleared of all wrongdoing this week over the death of an environmental activist killed by a stun grenade during a protest in 2014.
Paris police had no initial comment about the new taser-ing video.