The man had been touched by six shots during a road check in Seine-Saint-Denis in August 2021. The facts had been filmed and posted on social networks.
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Friday, February 18, the Bobigny court sentenced to two years in prison a strongly injured motorist, six months ago practically day for the day, by the shots of two police officers of the anti-crime brigade (BAC) of Stains ( Seine-Saint-Denis). The man, 37 years old and who appeared free, was placed under a warrant of deposit and immediately incarcerated.
He was also sentenced to pay 15,000 euros of damages to the police after being convicted of “refusal to obey” and “violence with weapon” – in this case, his car. A decision he appealed. “The whole thing, considers his lawyer M e Yassine Bouzrou, at the end of a pseudo-audience chaired by a civilian magistrate who did not master the criminal matter and the assessors who had obviously not read the entire file. “
The Friday’s trial constitutes the first judicial step of a case that had aroused strong controversy after the broadcast, on the Twitter account of the suburban echo, a participatory media, a brief particularly violent video sequence. The images, filmed from the cabin of a vehicle that borrowed, at the time of the shooting, the Boulevard Maxime-Gorki around 1:30 am, on the night from August 15 to 16 2021, showed two policemen devoid of any sign. Distinctive attempt to immobilize a dark vehicle before fire, at a very close distance, on the occupants of the car. The driver, multi-educator, adverse police, had been reached by six impacts in the arm, chest and pubis; His companion, she had been touched by two projectiles.
Two versions of the contradictory facts
A few hours later, in another video sequence posted on his own social networks, the Paris police prefecture had delivered a version of the facts at the end of which the officials of the tray were “coming to control the driver of a Vehicle which, after cutting the contact, [had] handed over and suddenly reverse, thus punching the police officer who was in protection “. A second policeman was dragged on “several meters by the driver of the vehicle, which [had] made a walk before”.
But the video shot by the anonymous motorist put this presentation of the facts: Certainly, the car controlled by the police had tried to start a maneuver to escape – the driver said that at that moment “It did not know their status as police officers – but it had almost immediately taken for target under a cross. Above all, none of the two policemen appeared “hit” or “dragged” on “several meters”.
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