2023-06-29 00:22:47
The police officer, author of the fatal shot against a 19-year-old Guinean during a road check on June 14 in Saint-Yrieix (Charente), was indicted on Wednesday June 28 for intentional homicide, we learned from the Angoulême public prosecutor’s office.
This “Indictment was accompanied by requisitions for placement under judicial control with a ban on possession of a weapon and a ban on professional exercise”announced Wednesday evening the public prosecutor of Angoulême Stéphanie Aouine, within the framework of the opening of a judicial investigation for ” voluntary homicide. »
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The policeman, a 52-year-old brigadier, was taken into custody on Wednesday morning, said Ms. Aouine. In the early morning of June 14, in Saint-Yrieix-sur-Charente, in the suburbs of Angoulême, Alhoussein Camara was fatally shot by a police officer while trying to escape arrest during a traffic check.
According to the first elements of the investigation, while two police vehicles were trying to arrest him, the young man had engaged reverse gear and then moved forward, hitting the legs of a policeman, who then fired a ball. The relatives of Mr. Camara very quickly denounced a “burr”.
According to the investigation conducted since by the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) and communicated to the prosecution, “The toxicological analyzes revealed no trace of alcohol or narcotics in the driver of the vehicle”who borrowed “presumably” the path “who led him to his work”added the Angoulême prosecutor on Wednesday.
Additional investigations
The scene was not filmed by the police officer in question, “good carrier of a pedestrian camera” more “whose operation was not possible for lack of sufficient load (…) at the time of the events”added the prosecutor, who had also opened an investigation in mid-June for “refusal to comply” et “intentional violence against a person holding public authority”.
“Audio Call Transcription” between the police and their operational center is ” according to “ to the statements made before the investigators, according to the magistrate.
Judicial information for ” voluntary homicide “ should allow to lead “additional investigations, taking into account in particular the conditions of use of the weapon and the circumstances of a possible state of self-defence”explained the prosecution.
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Arrived in France in 2018, passed through a child welfare home and having obtained a CAP in cooking, the young Guinean worked in a restaurant and now officiated in an Intermarché logistics base, where he went , according to his relatives. He was unknown to justice, according to the prosecution.
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His death at the wheel as part of an arrest was the first in 2023 in these circumstances, before that of Nahel, a 17-year-old motorist, killed Tuesday in Nanterre during a refusal to comply.
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