2023-06-27 19:57:44
The car ended its race a few tens of meters further, embedded in a post.
The victim, Naël M., 17, died shortly after being hit, despite the intervention of the Samu.
At the start of the evening, seven people were arrested in Nanterre during tensions with the police, we learned from the police headquarters.
Two units of mobile forces, including members of the CRS 8 – specializing in the fight against urban violence – are deployed in the capital of Hauts-de-Seine for the night, according to the Ministry of the Interior.
Trash fires, quickly brought under control, were reported in the afternoon.
Shortly before 9:00 p.m., around thirty people gathered peacefully in front of a police station, chanting “the police mutilate, the police murder”.
Two open investigations
An investigation has been opened for refusal to comply and attempted intentional homicide of a person holding public authority.
Another investigation, opened for intentional homicide by a person holding public authority, was entrusted to the IGPN (General Inspectorate of the National Police), the police force.
“One of the police officers is currently in custody for intentional homicide. Blood alcohol and narcotics screening operations were carried out and proved to be negative,” the prosecution said in a statement.
Two complaints
“We will be filing a complaint for intentional homicide against the police officer who fired the shots in the coming days (…). The complaint will also target his colleague for complicity in voluntary homicide”, announced for his part the family lawyer, Me Yassine Bouzrou, in a press release.
“A second complaint for forgery in public writing will be filed against the police who claimed that the young man had attempted to commit homicide on their person by trying to hit them, which is formally denied by viewing the video. “, he also wrote.
Two other people were in the vehicle at the time: a first passenger fled, while the second, also a minor, was arrested and taken into custody. The latter was lifted at the start of the afternoon, the prosecution said.
According to the first elements of the investigation reported by police sources, the driver of the vehicle, a Mercedes AMG which had been rented, had committed several traffic violations. At the sight of police motorcyclists, he first stopped, before accelerating.
An official then shot him in the chest.
“An autopsy and additional examinations, particularly in terms of toxicology, have been ordered and must be carried out” on Wednesday, the prosecution said.
13 deaths in 2022
About forty people briefly gathered in the early afternoon near the scene of the tragedy, tears in their eyes, to share their “anger”.
“It’s so sad, he was so young. I saw him born,” sighed Samia Bough, 62, a former neighbor of the teenager, who came to lay a bouquet of yellow roses.
The victim was already known to the courts, in particular for refusing to comply.
The mayor (DVG) of Nanterre, Patrick Jarry, said he was “shocked” by the video of the drama, which was widely commented on on the left.
“The death penalty no longer exists in France. No police officer has the right to kill except in self-defense,” tweeted the leader of La France insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon, believing that the police should be “entirely overhauled”.
At the National Assembly, Gérald Darmanin spoke of “extremely shocking images” calling for “respecting the bereavement of families and the presumption of innocence of the police”.
The 38-year-old policeman who shot the shot is “very shocked” by the tragedy, said police chief Laurent Nuñez on BFMTV.
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