A 23-year-old police officer was indicted after firing at a motorist who fled a police check. The Alliance union gathered Monday in Paris, dozens of police to show their support for this colleague deemed "professional" and "right". The delegated general secretary of the union denounces "increasingly difficult working conditions, the dangerousness of the job of policeman" which "makes that sometimes it is necessary to act".
Dozens of police gathered Monday in Paris at the Alliance's call to "lend their support" to their colleague who killed a motorist on Tuesday after a chase. "He needs support. It is neither protesting nor claiming. It is to show that his colleagues in the 1st arrondissement, the trade unions are behind him and support him in this difficult ordeal , " said Loïc Lecouplier, Deputy National Secretary Paris of the Alliance union, at the rally organized in front of neighborhood police station.
The police officer, aged 23, was indicted for "willful violence resulting in death without intent to give it by any person in charge of the public authority" , and placed under judicial control with prohibition to perform his duties. The victim, aged 26, fled after refusing to submit to a police check in a neighborhood near Les Halles, in the center of the capital.
The police officer immediately climbed into the back of the scooter of an individual passing by and chased the driver of the car, who found himself stuck nearly two kilometers away. According to a source close to the investigation, "the policeman then got off the scooter and ordered him to comply" , "but when the vehicle backed up and hit the scooter, the official fired a shot" , mortally wounding him in the chest.
"Professional" and "right"
"It's not our role to challenge court decisions. There is a death in this case, it makes sense that there is an indictment and judicial control, " said Loïc Lecouplier. But "our colleague is in difficulty, finds himself facing difficulties in the field," and "the least thing for a majority union is to show that we are present," said Fabien Vanhemelryck, Alliance Deputy Secretary General .
"We are just here to show our solidarity, to denounce the increasingly difficult working conditions of our colleagues, the dangerousness of the profession of policeman" which "makes that sometimes it is necessary to act" , according to him. Mickaël Wurtz delegate Alliance and colleague of the policeman described someone as "professional and legal" . "It looks solid, but when you're at home, you're alone and you're cogitant," he said. "It's hard to have killed someone . "
The relatives of the victim must pay their respects Saturday during a walk in white Vigneux-sur-Seine (Essonne). His family, who will be a civil party, plans to request a requalification in intentional homicide, said his lawyer.