The driver of the vehicle suspected of refusing to comply during a check on Saturday in Paris during which the police fired, killing one of his passengers, was indicted on Thursday in particular for “attempted voluntary homicide” and remanded in custody, according to a judicial source.
The man, injured by a police shot in the chest, is indicted for “attempted intentional homicide of a person holding public authority, repeated aggravated refusal to comply, repeated driving of a vehicle despite an injunction to return his driving license and repeated offense of driving under the influence of an alcoholic state”. He was “placed in pre-trial detention at the place of his hospitalization”, according to the same source.
Heard in the hospital
Seriously injured by police shooting in the chest, the driver was heard by the investigating judge at the hospital where he was admitted after the fact, according to the prosecution. The 38-year-old man was placed in police custody on Tuesday for refusing to comply twice during a check of his vehicle in the 18th arrondissement by mountain bike officials.
The latter fired nine times, according to the prosecution, injured him and his passenger seated in the front, whom they hit in the head. The young woman, born in 2001, died the next day.
“Fear of going to jail”
The suspect’s lawyer, Me Ibrahim Shalabi, had pointed out earlier in the morning during a press conference that the occupants of the car were not wanted and that the vehicle was blocked by a bus when the police opened the car. fire. “The car could not move,” he said. “He refused to comply for fear of going to prison (…) for fear that the police would arrest him because he did not have his license”, explained Sonia (first name changed), the mistress’s sister. in question, during the same press conference.
The police custody of the three police officers who used their weapon was lifted on Tuesday after forty-eight hours for “continuation of investigations” as part of the judicial investigation opened on Tuesday. They are not indicted at this stage.
Several associations called for a rally on Saturday in Paris to demand the repeal of article L435-1 of the internal security code which regulates the use of firearms by the police.