One dead and one seriously injured. A police check turned tragic, Saturday June 4, in the 18e district of Paris. According to a police source, police officers noticed a vehicle in which one of the four occupants was not wearing a seat belt. They would then have decided to carry out an inspection and the vehicle would have “fleed at high speed” et “dark on a crew of police on bicycles”. Several police officers would then have used their weapon, seriously injuring the driver and the front passenger, whose death was announced on Sunday evening. Some of the occupants of the vehicle would be known to the police and would have claimed to have consumed narcotics and alcohol, says a source close to the investigation.
Two investigations have been opened, announced the Paris prosecutor’s office. The first, for “attempted intentional homicide on a person holding public authority”, was entrusted to the Paris judicial police. In this context, the driver was briefly taken into custody, Monday June 6, at the hospital, before it was lifted, the 38-year-old man not being “not in a state to be heard at this stage”.
At the same time, three police officers were placed in police custody on Sunday. “because of the seriousness of the consequences of the shots carried out and in order to verify the conditions of use of their weapons by the persons concerned”, said the prosecution. Heard by the IGPN as part of a second investigation for “violence resulting in an ITT of more than eight days with a weapon by a person holding public authority” and “violence resulting in death without intention to give it by person responsible for public authority”, their police custody was extended on Monday.
“Aiming the vehicle rather than the driver”
A month after the Pont-Neuf shooting incident, the event angered Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who denounced on Twitter on Saturday, a “death penalty for failure to comply” : “The prefect approves? The minister congratulates? Shame is when? »continued the leader of La France insoumise one week before the first round of the legislative elections. “The police, the gendarmes deserve respect. They do courageous, difficult work and risk their lives every moment. Insulting them dishonors those who want to govern. Let the investigations be done without using them as hostages of an electoral campaign”replied the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.
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