Two police officers were heard in police custody on Friday after having used their weapons, killing a man and seriously injuring another, when they were threatened by a vehicle during a check. Their lawyer believes that “all the elements of self -defense are united”.
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The multiplication and dangerousness of refusals to comply, as well as the conditions of use of arms by the police, are at the heart of the drama that occurred in the night of Thursday, August 19, in Vénissieux (Rhône), south of the Metropolis of Lyon. Affected by police fire, a 20 -year -old man died, another 26 -year -old is hospitalized. His vital prognosis is “very committed”, according to the prosecution.
The two men tried to force a police check aboard a stolen car by deliberately hitting a police officer, according to the first elements of a double investigation, exposed in a press release from the Lyon prosecution. Which opened an investigation for “refusal to comply aggravated and violence with weapons on public force agents”, entrusted to the departmental security, in order to specify the behavior of the two occupants of the vehicle.
The two police officers at the origin of the shots were placed in police custody, as part of a separate investigation, entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), for “violence with weapon by depositary of the public authority having led to death without intention to give it “. Their police custody was lifted at the end of the day.
“If the first elements seem to corroborate the hypothesis of self -defense, additional investigations – in particular a reconstruction and ballistic expertise – must however be diligent to confirm the exact circumstances in which the police have made use of their weapons” , said the prosecution in a second press release, specifying that it opened judicial information in order to ensure “contradictory” investigations and “allow families of the deceased and the seriously injured person to access the procedure “.
” Very unfavorably known to the police “
The scene occurred shortly after midnight on Friday. While they were about to get back from their night patrol, aboard a screen printing vehicle, four police officers from the specialized field brigade (BST) of the local police station noticed a car immobilized in the vast car park of the center Commercial Carrefour de Vénissieux, on the edge of the Boulevard peripheral of Lyon. According to their story, they were intrigued by the position and the broken lighthouse of the vehicle, occupied by two individuals. By passing the registration of the Renault Megane in the files, the police understood that the car was stolen.
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