2023-07-07 22:49:00
During riots in Mont-Saint-Martin, in Meurthe-et-Moselle, a man was seriously injured. According to his family, he was injured by a projectile from the Raid.
By HR with AFP It was a Raid shot that hit the seriously injured young man in Lorraine, according to the victim’s family. © FABIEN PALLUEAU / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP Published on 07/07/2023 at 10:49 p.m.
The Val-de-Briey prosecutor’s office announced this Friday, July 7, the opening of a judicial investigation next week, after a young man was seriously injured in Mont-Saint-Martin, in Meurthe-et-Moselle, during the riots. According to his family, he was hit by a projectile from the Raid.
“The complexity of the investigations remaining to be carried out justifies the opening of a judicial investigation and the joint referral of investigating magistrates” from Nancy, indicated in a press release the public prosecutor Catherine Galen, who did not specify for what reason. chief this judicial investigation would be opened. His prosecution will therefore divest “next week in favor” of that of Nancy, she said.
After the events that occurred on the night of June 29 to 30 in Mont-Saint-Martin, a municipality bordering Belgium and Luxembourg, the Val-de-Briey prosecutor’s office quickly seized the IGPN of the acts of violence with a weapon per person. depositary of public authority, recalled Catherine Galen in her press release. The family of the 25-year-old victim has filed a complaint for “intentional violence” against the police.
Raid police targeted
According to the current elements of the investigation, and “subject to the evolution of the procedure”, Raid police officers would have been targeted, in particular by firing “powerful mortars” and “stones” from “crowding many pedestrians” and “vehicles in circulation”. They would then have made “exclusively” use of “various non-lethal intermediate weapons”, such as LBDs or others projecting “bean bags” (“bags of peas”).
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These so-called “bean bag” ammunition are “believed to be less lethal and should not cause penetrating wounds when used at appropriate distances”, according to a study by the University of Texas published in September 2020 by the New England Journal of Medicine. But they “can cause serious damage and are not suitable for use in crowd control”, argue the academics. The victim, who was driving his vehicle near these scuffles, was “seriously injured in the temple” and is still hospitalized on Friday in a “stationary but worrying” state of health, according to the prosecutor.
His injuries are “a priori compatible with a bean bag shot,” Galen said in her statement. According to a member of the victim’s family, the latter was traveling by car, window open, “to go and refuel at the petrol pump in Luxembourg” after his day’s work, when he “received a projectile from the Raid, a “bean bag” on the temple”.
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The family “rejects any confusion between Aimène and the rioters”: “He is someone who works, he does forty hours a week as a security guard in Luxembourg, he is not a delinquent at all”. The victim was driving in his car “in the heart of the urban violence without his participation being established at this stage”, indicates in its press release the Val-de-Briey prosecutor’s office.
“Is it a stray bullet or a shot because we suspect perpetrators of urban violence, that remains to be determined,” Ms. Galen told AFP on Wednesday. “We are on a night scene, with many shots, tear gas, mortars. It remains confusing. At the end of its intervention, the Raid did not know that there was a serious victim, ”she added.
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