According to a police source, the vehicle was traveling against the police when the police wanted to control it. The occupants of the vehicle would then have dark on the agents who used their weapon.
Le Monde with AFP
The facts took place shortly before midnight, a few hours after the re-election of President Emmanuel Macron celebrated in the Champs-de-Mars, without being able to establish, at this stage, a link with this political event.
On the Pont-Neuf, in the center of Paris, Sunday, shortly before midnight, police officers shot on a car, while the occupants of the latter tried to hit them, according to a police source, killing two people on board and injuring a third.
traffic in the wrong way
According to the first elements collected, according to a police source, the vehicle was traveling in the wrong way when the police wanted to control it. The occupants of the vehicle would then have dark on the agents who made use of their weapon, killing two people and one injured, said this same source.
The Paris prosecutor, Laure Beccuau, arrived around 1:30 am on site, before leaving an hour later, noted an AFP journalist.
An important police device was deployed on the outskirts. The scientific police were busy around two bodies on the ground, covered with white sheets, located near the vehicle, one on a sidewalk and the other on the road. The investigation was entrusted to the 1 er district of the judicial police for “attempted homicide on persons possession of the public authority”, said the parquet of Paris.
The General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN, “police police”) was seized, said a police source, as is systematically the case, as soon as a policeman uses his weapon .