Claude d’Harcourt was placed under the status of assisted witness. In this file, its chief of staff and the commissioner who managed the police intervention are always indicted for “manslaughter”.
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Claude d’Harcourt, senior official who has asserted his retirement rights since July, raised to the rank of officer of the Legion of Honor, can blow. This Friday, October 28, the investigating chamber of the Rennes Court of Appeal canceled its indictment, as a prefect of Loire-Atlantique during the year 2019, of the chief of “manslaughter” in the context Instruction aimed at establishing any faults that led to the death of Steve Maia Caniço, the night of the 2019 music festival in Nantes. The 24 -year -old died in the Loire, after the Nantes police officers carried out an operation to dispersion a techno party on the Wilson quay, a site then devoid of the slightest parapet.
m. d’Harcourt, who completed his career as director general of foreigners in France at the Ministry of the Interior, was placed under the status of assisted witness. The investigating chamber of the Rennes Court of Appeal, on the other hand, confirmed the indictment of Johann Mougenot, director of cabinet of M. d’Harcourt at the time of the drama. In this file, Commissioner Grégoire Chassaing, who directed the controversial police intervention, is also indicted for “manslaughter”.
The night of June 21, 2019, the tension was mounted as soon as the police demanded revelers to cut the sound. At 4:31 a.m., the Chassaing Commissioner announced that the workforce in place wiped a rain of projectiles. In return, the latter made use of 33 tear gas canisters, 10 grenades of desecration and, 12 times, launchers of defense balls. The tear gas cloud has created a panic movement and caused the fall of several people in the Loire, including that fatal that in Steve. 2> “Characterized imprudence”
Faced with the investigating judge in charge of the file, Grégoire Chassaing assured that he had used no tear gas on a personal basis. “Each workforce that used it made it without order on my part,” he said in his interrogation report, dated September 22, 2021. The investigating judge considered that, from the Made of the danger of places, night and the presence of an audience potentially alcoholic or under narcotics, the operation was “a characterized imprudence”.
Incredible fact: The prefecture discovered a posteriori that the great sea port of Nantes-Saint-Nazaire, public establishment of the State, was the owner of the field on which the party was held. As it stands, Mr. Mougenot is reproached for having abstained, as director of the prefect’s cabinet, of giving the necessary instructions to make the premises secure and not have associated with the preparatory meetings of the The representatives of the Grand Port Maritime, while leaving to organize on its grip the gathering of sound walls.
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