He did not survive. The man injured by the shooting of a police officer during a chase, on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday in Cantaron (Alpes-Maritimes), between the Italian border and Nice, died on Thursday, let know the wooden floor. Of Egyptian nationality, this 35-year-old man had been hit “in the head” while he was, with four other individuals in an irregular situation, in the back of a refrigerated van that the police were trying to intercept.
A border police officer had fired and hit the utility twice while the latter “would have accelerated towards the police vehicle”, explained the prosecution on Wednesday. An investigation was opened and entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN). The author of the shots is in police custody for “willful violence resulting in death without intention to give it”, specified to 20 Minutes Parvine Derivery, assistant to the public prosecutor of Nice.
Transported “in absolute vital emergency” to the hospital
The injured man was not discovered until several kilometers after the shots, when the vehicle was finally abandoned by its driver and the two front passengers in the Moulins district, west of Nice. He had been “transported in absolute vital emergency to the Pasteur hospital”, in the east of the city, according to the prosecutor.
Another investigation of the heads of “aid for the entry and movement in France of foreigners in an irregular situation in conditions incompatible with human dignity”, “refusal to comply aggravated by the endangerment of others” and “attempted homicide against a person holding public authority” was opened. It was entrusted, “at this stage”, to the Departmental Directorate of Border Police.