The driver died on Wednesday after being hit by a 23 -year -old policeman, assistant in a road safety brigade. The driver was circulating without a license on board a stolen vehicle, according to the police.
Le Monde with AFP
The police custody of the policeman author of the fatal shooting Wednesday on a motorist in Nice was extended from twenty-four hours Thursday evening, as part of the investigation of the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) open For voluntary homicide, according to information from the France-Presse agency obtained from the prosecution. The official had been placed in police custody on Wednesday evening.
Around 4:30 p.m. that day, a man who was traveling without a license on board a stolen vehicle, according to the police, died after being touched by a 23-year-old policeman, assistant within ‘A road safety brigade. According to the Departmental Directorate of Public Security (DDSP), the police have gone to the driver of the vehicle “dangerously zigzag” to follow them, but the latter had accelerated.
For those close to the victim, “it is obvious that we [deal] have a homicide, there is no discussion on this,” said one of their lawyers, Maître Sefen on Thursday Guez Guez.
“perception”
According to videos broadcast Thursday on social networks, the driver, blocked by a police car at the front, reverse a background before trying to dislodge and restart. But he was then blocked by the police car in front. It is at this moment that the policeman, a weapon in the fist and standing near the vehicle, draws through the driver’s side window.
Questioned about these videos Thursday on Franceinfo, the director general of the national police, Frédéric Veaux, considered that “in a case like this, it is the whole action that must be analyzed . What happened before, in the environment. The perception that the police have had at the time of the intervention “.
Two investigations were opened in this file: a first, entrusted to the departmental security, for attempted homicide on a person depositary of the public authority, a second, by the IGPN, the police police, for homicide volunteer by the policeman, author of the shooting.