A municipal police officer in Lyon was sentenced on Monday to a 15-month suspended prison sentence for intentional violence with weapons, reports

Le Progrès.

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.

Incredibly, during a chase in Lyon, a policeman shoots the tire of a driver without a license and under the influence of narcotics: the policeman is dismissed and sentenced to a heavier sentence than the fugitive: this country has become mad !



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— Gilbert Collard (@GilbertCollard) May 17, 2022


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