“You’re going to take a bullet to the head. The sentence, heard before the fatal shooting of Nahel in a video from a witness, had helped to ignite social networks. The policeman who fired the shot contested, before the IGPN, having pronounced it, according The Parisian who obtained a transcript of the agent’s statements. During his hearing by the General Inspectorate of the National Police, Florian M., 38, assured that he yelled at Nahel to cut off the ignition and confirmed that he repeatedly hit the windshield of the car “in order to attract the driver’s attention,” says the Parisianquoting the words of the policeman.
After studying a video filmed by a witness and widely distributed on social networks, the IGPN explains that he heard Florian M. shout “Cut, cut”, then speaking in a third voice “can be attributed” to Florian M’s colleague . who would have shouted: “You’re going to take a bullet in the head”, according to the report consulted by the Parisian. For his part, Florian M. declares that, on June 27, he is on “his ninth consecutive working day”.
The facts according to Florian M.
With his colleague, he asks Nahel for the first time, driving a Mercedes “which was driving in the bus lane”, to pull over for a check. The teenager left “at full speed”, told the policeman to the IGPN, still according to The Parisian. After catching up with the vehicle, Florian M. said he put himself in a “fichant shooting” position to, according to him, avoid shooting anywhere and aim for Nahel’s lower body in case he needed to open the fire, still reports the daily. Florian M. is convinced that he sees his colleague pass “the upper body in the cabin” and feels “cornered”, stuck between the Mercedes vehicle and a low wall behind him.
He justified his shooting, the first and only shot of his career, on the pretext that he thought his colleague still had the body in the passenger compartment of the vehicle and said he feared that the teenager “would take him on board” in his escape. This colleague, also questioned, said he had “only his arm” in the car, writes The Parisian. The second officer does not comment on the legality of his colleague’s shot, not having seen him act since his attention was focused on Nahel, reports The Parisian.