The police custody of the second police officer, who had also opened fire, was lifted without pursuit at this stage.
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After the refusal to comply at the end of which a 32 -year -old man was fatally injured on Friday evening in the 12 e arrondissement of Paris, a 25 -year -old policeman was indicted By an investigating judge on Sunday, for voluntary violence which led to death without intention to give it, said a judicial source. He was placed under judicial supervision, in accordance with the requisitions of the prosecution, with a ban on holding a weapon and exercising his profession as a peacekeeper, she said.
The qualification of voluntary homicide by person depository of the public authority, retained by the prosecution at the opening of the preliminary investigation on Friday, was abandoned in terms of the exploitation of video surveillance, findings and declarations of police officers.
The police custody of the second police officer, 31 years old and who had also opened fire, was on the other hand lifted without pursuit at this stage, according to the judicial source. The two police officers had been placed on Friday evening in police custody in the premises of the general inspection of the national police, in charge of the investigation.
A few hours earlier, around 7 p.m., in a counter-alley of the Vincennes course, these two police officers had used their service weapon when a vehicle they wanted to control started while they were carrying Its height had reported the judicial source. A lack of insurance motivated the police control, according to a source close to the survey. “One of the three shots has reached the driver who died,” said the judicial source. 2> twelve dead since the start of the year
The driver’s car was immobilized by hitting a parked vehicle. According to a video visible on Tiktok, police tried to revive the victim by practicing a heart massage. The man was unknown to the police and justice. Two individuals, who were on the car, fled. They had not been arrested on Sunday.
A second investigation for attempted murder on a person depositary of the public authority, entrusted to the judicial police, was opened on the conditions of the refusal to comply.
Since the beginning of the year, twelve people have died after police fire as part of refusal to comply. Since 2017, a new law has determined the opening conditions for the police fire. According to article 435-1 of the internal security code, police officers can draw in the event of refusal to comply if they cannot stop the car differently and if, in his leak, the driver is likely to put in danger their life or integrity or those of others.
Previously, the police were subject to the penal code and the principles of self -defense, like any citizen. The new doctrine, applied by the gendarmes long before the police, imposes the principles of “absolute necessity” and “strict proportionality” linked to self -defense.