The police officer responsible for the fatal shooting against a 19-year-old Guinean during a road check on June 14 in Saint-Yrieix, in the suburbs of Angoulême (Charente), was indicted on Wednesday evening for intentional homicide, announced the floor in a press release.
This indictment “was accompanied by requisitions for placement under judicial supervision with a ban on possession of a weapon and a ban on professional exercise” continues the public prosecutor Stéphanie Aouine. A judicial investigation for “voluntary homicide” has been opened.
“The policeman maintained his version of the facts”
The policeman, a 52-year-old brigadier, was taken into custody after further investigations. “The policeman maintained his version of the facts” during this police custody, which ended on Wednesday evening, still indicates the prosecution.
On June 14 in the early morning, in Saint-Yrieix-sur-Charente, Alhoussein Camara was fatally shot by police while trying to escape arrest during a traffic check. According to the first elements of the investigation, while two police vehicles were trying to arrest him, the young man had engaged reverse gear and then moved forward, hitting the legs of a policeman, who then fired a ball. The relatives of the victim quickly denounced a “blunder”.
“No trace of alcohol or narcotics in the driver of the vehicle”
According to the investigation carried out since by the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) and communicated to the prosecution, “the toxicological analyzes revealed no trace of alcohol or narcotics in the driver of the vehicle”, who borrowed “probably” the route “which led him to his work”, added the prosecutor of Angoulême on Wednesday.
The scene was not filmed by the police officer in question, “well carrying a pedestrian camera” but “whose exploitation was not possible for lack of sufficient charge […] at the time of the facts”, added the prosecutor, who had also opened an investigation in mid-June for “refusal to comply” and “willful violence against a person holding public authority”.
“The transcription of the audio calls” between the police and their operational center is “compliant” with the statements made to the investigators, according to the magistrate. The judicial information for “voluntary homicide” must make it possible to carry out “additional investigations, taking into account in particular the conditions of the use of the weapon and the circumstances of a possible state of self-defense”, explained the prosecution.