A municipal police officer in Lyon was sentenced on Monday to a 15-month suspended prison sentence for intentional violence with weapons, reports Progress. On February 10, this chief brigadier was chasing a speeding vehicle with a colleague in the Gerland district. The police had managed to stop the race of the vehicle in a dead end in Vénissieux. The driver then backed up to the officers.
The brigadier-in-chief tried to stop him by shooting a tire: it was this fact that led him to the criminal court for the first time, last March. The 49-year-old and already fired officer pleaded self-defense. However, the IGPN pointed to the absence of objective risk justifying the shooting, as well as a history of negative service records. The judicial court of Lyon combined the prison sentence with a ban on carrying a weapon and practicing the profession of police officer for 5 years.
Outrage from the far right
For his part, the arrested suspect, a young man of 17, without a license, was sentenced to 6 months in prison suspended for driving under narcotics and refusing to comply. His sentence, lighter than that of the policeman, caused a strong reaction on social networks, in particular the far right. “The policeman is dismissed and sentenced to a heavier sentence than the fugitive: this country has gone mad! Wrote on Twitter Gilbert Collard, honorary president of Reconquest.