Two days after fatally injuring the driver of a car during a refusal to comply, a 25-year-old police officer was presented Sunday afternoon to an examining magistrate for a possible indictment. A judicial source indicates that a judicial investigation has been opened for intentional violence resulting in death without intention to give it.
The exploitation of video surveillance, the findings and statements of police officers ruled out the qualification of intentional homicide by a person holding public authority, retained by the Paris prosecutor’s office at the opening of the preliminary investigation on Friday. .
The other policeman released without prosecution
The police custody of the second police officer, aged 31 and who had also opened fire, was however lifted without prosecution at this stage, according to the judicial source. The two police officers had used their service weapon when a vehicle they wanted to check started, while they were coming up to it.
According to a video visible on TikTok, the police tried to revive the victim by performing cardiac massage. Two men who were in the car fled on foot. They had not been arrested on Sunday. A second investigation for attempted murder of a person holding public authority, entrusted to the judicial police, was opened on the conditions of the refusal to comply.