Man is suspected of having refused to comply on Saturday morning in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, while mountain bike officials wanted to control his vehicle twice.
Le Monde with AFP
The driver of the vehicle suspected of a refusal to comply during a check on Saturday in Paris, during which the police fired, killing one of his passengers, was indicted on Thursday, June 9, and placed in pre -trial detention, according to a judicial source.
The man, injured by a shot of the police in the chest, is indicted for “attempted homicide on a person depositary of the public authority, recurrence of refusal to comply aggravated, recurrence of a conduct of a Vehicle despite the injunction to restore your driving license and driving recurrence under the empire of an alcoholic state “.
Seriously injured by a shot from the police in the chest, the driver was heard by the investigating judge at the hospital where he was admitted after the facts, according to the prosecution. The 38 -year -old man had been placed on Tuesday in sight for refusing to comply twice during a vehicle check in the 18th e arrondissement of Paris by mountain biking officials. The latter fired nine times, according to the prosecution, reached him in the thorax and touched his passenger at the front at the front, a young woman born in 2001 who died the next day.
police custody of the three police officers raised
The driver’s lawyer, M e Ibrahim Shalabi, stressed on Thursday that the occupants of the car, who came out of the evening, were not sought and that the vehicle was blocked by A bus when the police opened fire. “The car could not circulate”, he assured.
Asked about the driver’s state of health, her sister Sonia (modified first name) replied that he was “in bad shape, but his condition improves”. “It is true that my brother had problems with justice, but it does not justify the violence that was made,” continued Sonia in front of the press. “He refused to comply for fear of going to prison (…), for fear that the police stop him because he did not have his license”. “His legal past does not legitimate the nine bullets drawn,” insisted the young woman.
The police custody of the three police officers who made use of their weapon – two men of 23 and 32 years old and a 31 -year -old woman – was lifted on Tuesday, after forty -eight hours for “continuation of investigations” As part of the judicial information opened on the same day. They are not indicted, at this stage.
Several associations called for a rally on Saturday in Paris to request the repeal of article L435-1 of the internal security code which regulates the use of firearms by the police.