Faced with a refusal to comply to escape a driver’s control and shots, the police retaliated, fatally touching the passenger of the vehicle. The General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) has been seized.
Le Monde with AFP
This is a new episode of a series of violence that has marked the capital of Isère in recent months. An 18 -year -old young woman, a fleeting vehicle to escape a police check, was killed overnight from Tuesday, 4 to Wednesday, October 5 in Grenoble.
“The police officers of the Grenoble police station had to face a refusal to comply and shots made by the driver of the vehicle, who refused to stop, led them to retaliate,” detailed the prosecutor Grenoble, Eric Vaillant, in a press release. The passenger is “deceased from a shot having touched her on the neck”, while the driver of the vehicle was injured without his days being in danger, according to the same source.
The General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) was seized, while the prosecution opened an investigation for “attempted murder of persons possession of the public authority” and “refusal to comply”. The three police officers are currently heard under the police custody for having used their weapon, while the driver was also placed in police custody, according to the Grenoble prosecutor’s office. This 30-year-old has already condemned in the past in particular for aggravated violence, according to the same source.
“I heard shots, it woke me up. I saw the police car stop the other car, who had the tires punctured and rolled on the rims. I have lived here and J ‘I have never seen that, “a young man in his thirties told the France-Presse, under the guise of anonymity. Met in a tobacco-press shop, he says he saw the scene from the window of his building, overhanging a large avenue, at the edge of an industrial zone and near the Mistral district, known as a sensitive area from Grenoble.
“It’s a quiet area here, nothing happens, abounds the tobacco manager. We are at the crossroads of several hot districts, but there is no traffic here, no deal. It could have happened a kilometer higher or a kilometer lower on the avenue, but it happened here. “
A dozen shootings since the end of June 2>
The city of Grenoble has known, since the end of June, a dozen shootings sometimes involving the police, according to the statements of the Departmental Directorate of Public Security (DDSP). Last weekend, four men were hunted by police after opening fire in front of a bar in the Saint-Bruno district, located in the northwest of Grenoble and regularly quoted in the DDSP reports of Isère.
One of them, 34 years old, armed with a Kalashnikov, was injured in the shoulder by the police who pulled three times because he “would have targeted” with his weapon during The chase, according to the prosecution press release. The suspect, already known to the police, was indicted Tuesday for “attempted murders in an organized gang and on persons possession of the public authority”, according to the same source.
On August 21, an “attempted murder by firearm” comes at night and “shots” were fired in broad daylight “by two men on a scooter”, according to the DDSP. This case was at the time “the fifth attempted murder whose prosecution [was] seized since the beginning of the summer”, according to the prosecution.
On August 3, still in Saint-Bruno, two hooded individuals descend from a van and “one makes use twice a handgun in the legs” of a man while his companion ” Wear a stab on the back of a second individual and the asparagus of tear gas “, according to the DDSP.
On July 7, in the city center, a police officer from the anti-crime brigade opened fire on a man armed with a Kalashnikov, who died, after being “threatened directly” with his Patrol colleague, according to DDSP.