Feminicide in Paris: Administrative survey on weapon port of police officer sought

The 29-year-old police officer has been sought after Friday night and the discovery of his companion’s body.

Le Monde with AFP

Five days after the facts, the Prefect of Police Didier Lallement has requested the opening of an administrative investigation on any shortcomings concerning the authorization of weapon port granted to the police officer suspected of a femicide Friday in Paris , learned Wednesday, February 2, the France-Presse (AFP) agency with the police prefecture.

The survey aims to determine “if there have been failures or malfunctions in the organization of the policeman weapon service conditions”, known for domestic violence and psychological fragility, has specified at the AFP a source close to the file, confirming information from BFM-TV.

Conjugal violence awareness internship

The 29-year-old police officer, in Blood-Mesnil (Seine-Saint-Denis), is sought after Friday night and the discovery of the body of his companion, dead by strangulation, according to the first results of the autopsy, In its Parisian apartment of 19 e arrondissement. It is likely to wear its service weapon.

He had been placed in custody in October 2019 for violence on his companion of the time and had been inflicted as an alternative to prosecution, an awareness internship with domestic violence.

By administratively, it had been punished with a simple warning, the lowest disciplinary sanction of the public service, not registered in the agent file.

In addition, a judicial inquiry was opened for “voluntary homicide on concubin” and entrusted to 2 e District of the judicial police.

/Media reports.