The Director General of the National Police decided not to follow the opinion of the NPC, which advocated a referral to the Disciplinary Council.
Le Monde with AFP
The CRS at the origin of the shot, the December 2018 in Marseille, having killed Zineb Redouane, touched in the face by a tearful pomegranate, will not be referred to the disciplinary council, on National Police Patron decision, learned Saturday, October 30 the France-Press agency (AFP) from a source close to the file.
The Director General of the National Police (DGPN), Frédéric Veaux, decided not to follow the opinion of the General Inspectorate of the National Police (NPMI), which advocated, in the conclusions of its administrative investigation, A referral to the Disciplinary Board, it was clearly specified, confirming Information from France Inter .
In its report transmitted on May 20, the NPMB considered that the CRS had carried out a regulatory shot without deliberately targeting the victim, but had failed to “the obligation of discernment by a manifestly unsuitable action”, according to the source close to the folder. The Grenades launcher of the CRS had a range of 100 meters, while the Zineb Redouane building was thirty meters.
The DGPN, which ruled in July, took into account in its decision of “fatigue”, of the “lack of visibility”, of the “tension” and “the legally established necessity of drawing”, mentioned in the IGPN report, to provide the CRS from a disciplinary sanction, according to the near source.
The police officer who supervised the CRS at the time of the shooting, for which the IGPN also recommended a passage in discipline, escapes there. The two officials, “very well noted”, according to the same source, will have to perform “an internship”, in order to be “reminding the instructions in force on the employment of the defenses”.
No indications
The administrative survey was paid to judicial information, exotic in Lyon and still in progress. Justice has not communicated any possible pursuance so far.
Zineb Redouane, 80 years old, died on December 2, 2018 at the hospital, twenty-four hours after being touched hard by a lacrymogen grenade pulled by the police, while she closed a window of his apartment In the city center, where events unfolded.
A report of expertise delivered in May 2020 as part of the judicial information had concluded that the police fire had been made in the rules – in a bell – and had reached the victim accidentally.
But an independent video survey, published at the end of 2020 by the disclose media, had concluded, on the contrary, to a shot tense, practice forbidden to a residential building: