2023-08-08 17:46:03
Five police officers from the Marseilles branch of the RAID were placed in police custody on Tuesday, August 8, as part of the investigation into the death of a young man, victim of cardiac arrest probably caused by a gunshot. defense ball launcher (LBD) during the riots in early July. The investigating judge in charge of this investigation opened for “fatal blows with a weapon” also ordered the hearing, as witnesses, of other police officers from this elite unit of the national police, engaged in operations to maintain order.
Circulating on a scooter, Mohamed Bendriss, a 27-year-old delivery man, had been transported to the hospital when he had just collapsed, cours Lieutaud, in the city center in prey, this night from July 1 to 2, numerous store lootings. The young man returned to his mother’s home. During the autopsy, two impacts were revealed on the victim’s body, one in the thigh, the other in the chest. “The elements of the investigation make it possible to retain as probable a death caused by a violent shock at the level of the thorax caused by the firing of a projectile of the Flash-Ball type”, wrote the public prosecutor of Marseille, Dominique Laurens, on July 5. On this date, it was not possible to determine the place where the tragedy had happened, nor whether Mohamed Bendriss had taken part in the riots or not, nor even whether he had traveled in this area. According to relatives of the victim, this father of a child, and whose wife was expecting a second, was seen, a few moments earlier, filming arrests in a shopping street, not far from Cours Lieutaud .
Many videos having been kept to feed the proceedings opened against looters, some recordings would have made it possible to lead the general inspectorate of the national police (IGPN) and the judicial police – the two cosaisis investigation services – to the civil servants of the RAID. In view of the statements of the detainees and the explanations which will be provided by their colleagues, the investigating judge should decide whether or not to present them for a possible indictment.
A cousin of the victim also injured
The lawyers for the wife and mother of the victim, who have filed a civil action, welcome this acceleration of the investigation. In a press release published in July, Me Frédéric Coffano and Thierry Ospital indicated that the two women did not intend to argue and “to bring accusations or anathemas against anyone”manifesting only their “unwavering desire to know the perpetrators of this disturbing and violent death, within the framework of a fair and objective procedure”.
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