Refusal to comply: two people killed by police fire in twenty-four hours

In Rennes, a young woman was affected during an anti -crop operation on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday. A few hours later, a man circulating aboard a stolen vehicle was killed in Nice.

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Two dead motorists, killed by police officers in less than twenty-four hours, in Rennes and Nice: the assessment of the consequences of refusal to comply continues to increase, against the backdrop of bright controversies on use firearms by the police.

In Nice, in the middle of the afternoon, Wednesday, September 7, a Tunisian national in his thirties was shot dead while traveling on a stolen declared car, After being hunted by a road safety brigade unit for rolling dangerously on several highly frequented axes in the city. A video sequence broadcast on social networks shows the car engaged in an aisle and blocked by a police vehicle, from which escapes a thick plume of smoke. On the driver’s side, a civil servant in clothes breaks his weapon on the glass before fire on a recovery. The car passenger was arrested.

Contacted by Le Monde, the prosecutor of Nice, Xavier Bonhomme, specifies that “two investigations were opened, one, entrusted to the departmental security, against the passenger of the vehicle which was placed in custody On sight Wednesday evening and the second for voluntary homicide entrusted to the IGPN [General Inspectorate of the National Police], which aims at the policeman author of the shooting “. The latter, specifies the magistrate, was “very psychologically affected and admitted to the hospital before being placed in police custody”.

During the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, another refusal to comply ended up with the death of the passenger of a Peugeot 208, after the shooting of a civil servant of the Research and Intervention Brigade ( BRI) from Nantes, during an anti -cutting operation. The 22 -year -old woman was unknown to judicial services. She died, at 2:15 a.m., touched in the chest by the ball that crossed the driver’s right arm, a four -year -old young man her elder, known to the police.

struck at the level of legs

During his first hearing, the official author of the shot said he opened fire after the Peugeot struck him at the legs, when he tried to move away from his trajectory. After a “situation” in the morning of September 7, a few hours after the facts, the Rennes prosecutor’s office opened two criminal procedures, which are added to the investigation into drug trafficking: the first, for ” Voluntary violence with a weapon by person depository of the public authority which led to death without the intention of giving it, “was entrusted to the IGPN in order to determine the circumstances in which the BRI policeman was brought to Target the Peugeot; The second, for “attempted homicide voluntary on a person depositary of the public authority”, was entrusted to the criminal brigade of the reindeer judicial police and aims at the driver of the Peugeot.

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/Media reports.