The agent had opened fire on Tuesday in Neuville-en-Ferrain, on the driver of a vehicle who had refused to comply. He is prosecuted for “violence which led to death without intention to give it”. He was in a self -defense situation, according to his lawyer.
Le Monde with AFP
The policeman placed in police custody after the death death of a young man on Tuesday during a check in Neuville-en-Ferrain (North) was indicted on Wednesday August 31 for “violence having Trained death without intention to give it, “we learned from his lawyer. Lille prosecutor confirmed that it required the indictment for this qualification.
“The facts are materially recognized, but justified by what constitutes a cause of criminal irresponsibility: self -defense, which at this stage must still be supported by acts of investigation,” said M e
sup> manon dugast, confirming Information of the voice of the North.
According to the story of the Lille prosecutor, Carole Etienne, a police crew wanted to control the “occupants of a vehicle with false license plates” around three in the morning, in this neighboring town of Tourcoing, on the Belgian border. The driver of the car then started “suddenly, in order to escape it,” she said.
“In the flight, a policeman managed to open the door, on the driver’s side, in order to extract the individual and used his weapon to a recovery. The driver of the vehicle questioned, aged 23, is Died on the spot, despite the intervention of the emergency services, “she continued. According to a police source, he was reached in the chest. The passenger of the vehicle was placed in police custody “for concealment of vehicle flight and complicity in refusal to comply”.
the investigations entrusted to the IGPN
The conclusions of the victim’s autopsy “are compatible with the first elements of the investigation” but “will be completed by ballistic investigations”, said the prosecution in a statement on Wednesday morning. “The victim was fatally injured by a single shot in the ribs to the left side,” he added.
According to a police source, this young man was “known for several heavy facts of narcotics and concealment”. He had to carry out a sentence of six months in prison following a “lack of achievement of a work of general interest”, the “impact decision dating from June 2022”.
In this new case of a person killed during a refusal to comply, the investigations were entrusted to the zonal management of the judicial police and to the IGPN – the “police police” – to “circumscribe very exactly the circumstances of the fact commission, “said the prosecutor.
“[The police] was affected [by the vehicle], there is a medical observation, he could have been crushed,” insisted M e dugast. “At the time of the attempted arrest, the vehicle was set in motion in an extremely violent manner,” she said, assuring that the police “fully assumes his gesture, convinced that he did not have any ‘Another option “. “It was the first time he drew,” said he. “He is aware of the gravity of what happened” continued the lawyer.
She describes a police officer on the “exemplary course” and “irreproachable states of service”, “very respected, very human, very sustained”, having “no disciplinary incident to his credit”.
Three files already in the hands of the defender of rights
Of 14,240 refusals to comply account for in 2021 by the national police, 157 cases concern “uses of firearms on moving vehicles”, according to police figures.
Last June, the defender of rights decided to take up “automatic” of three files concerning police officers who used their weapon after a refusal to comply.
These three files concern four deceased: a motorist on March 26 in Sevran, two men by car on April 24 on the Pont-Neuf in Paris and the passenger of a vehicle in the 18 > arrondissement of the capital on June 4.
Other cases have occurred more recently, such as mid-August, in Vénissieux, near Lyon, where police officers drew on several occasions during the control of a stolen reported car, killing two.