2023-08-02 00:27:19
Registrations in solidarity with Aimene, having received an LBD shot by the RAID on the evening of Friday June 30, 2023. He is plunged into an artificial coma and his vital prognosis is engaged. Mont-Saint-Martin, Meurthe-et-Moselle. July 4, 2023 NICOLAS LEBLANC / ITEM FOR “THE WORLD”
The lawyer for a young man seriously injured one evening of riots in June in Mont-Saint-Martin (Meurthe-et-Moselle), according to his family by a projectile fired by the police intervention unit, the RAID, indicated Tuesday, August 1 to Agence France-Presse (AFP) to have requested the change of scenery of the judicial information.
In his letter to the Nancy prosecutor, Me Yassine Bouzrou notably justifies this request for expatriation by the refusal of the investigating judges to give him access to the file. Me Bouzrou is the lawyer for the mother of Aimène Bahouh, a 25-year-old man who is still in a coma after being injured in the head on June 30.
According to a member of Mr. Bahouh’s family, he was traveling by car, window open, “to go and refuel at the petrol pump in Luxembourg”when he “received a projectile from the RAID, of the bean bag type on the temple”.
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“The RAID agent who carried out the shooting has necessarily been identified to date by the general inspectorate of the national police, but to our knowledge he has still not been indicted”writes Me Bouzrou in his letter.
The IGPN quickly seized
For the lawyer, “the refusal of the investigating magistrates to investigate this file and to communicate to the civil parties the elements of the file demonstrates a hostility which can only be explained by a concern for the protection of the police officer who has committed an extremely serious offence”. He adds that the RAID is based in Nancy, justifying that the procedure be referred to another court.
In this case, the Val-de-Briey prosecutor’s office had quickly seized the IGPN of the facts of violence with a weapon by a person holding public authority.
Aimene, victim of an LBD shot in the head by the RAID, on the evening of Friday June 30, 2023. He is plunged into an artificial coma and his vital prognosis is engaged. Mont-Saint-Martin, Meurthe-et-Moselle. July 4, 2023 NICOLAS LEBLANC / ITEM FOR “THE WORLD”
The Val-de-Briey prosecutor’s office had withdrawn, in view of the “complexity of facts”for the benefit of that of Nancy and a judicial investigation had been opened.
THE « bean bags »in French “bag of peas”are “believed to be less lethal and should not cause penetrating wounds when used at appropriate ranges”according to a University of Texas study published in September 2020 by the New England Journal of Medecine. But they “may cause serious harm and are not suitable for use in crowd control”say the academics.
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