“For me, the policeman did not have the right to shoot.

In an interview with

Parisien

, the mother of Zied B., the 24-year-old young man shot dead after refusing to comply last Wednesday in Nice, believes that "no danger justified killing [ his son ".

"The police could have [l'] arrested differently, by shooting at the car, at the tires for example", she believes in the columns of the daily, referring to the videos of the intervention which were broadcast on the networks. social.

Around 4:30 p.m. that day, the unlicensed driver was chased while he was "zigzagging dangerously" in a stolen vehicle.

The man had turned around before hitting the police vehicle.

A 23-year-old agent fired “once […] after several warnings”, according to the Nice prosecutor.

On Friday, the magistrate announced the opening of a judicial investigation for "intentional homicide".

The policeman was finally indicted in the evening for "willful violence with a weapon causing death without intention to give it".

Already convicted and wanted in another case

Ouadie Elhamamouchi and Sefen Guez Guez, the lawyers for the victim's family who are going to bring civil action on Monday, also believe that "we are trying to smear the memory of Zied", with information having "no relation to the case since he was not identified at the time of the fatal shooting".

The investigations made it possible to determine that the young man had already been convicted of driving without a license and offenses against the legislation on narcotics and theft.

But also that he was wanted after a vehicle carrying migrants from Italy forced a roadblock last June in Sospel (Alpes-Maritimes).

The police opened fire and a man was fatally injured.

The DNA of Zied B., who could have been behind the wheel, had been discovered in the vehicle.

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