The prefect of Gironde and the prosecutor's office seized the IGPN (Inspectorate General of the National Police) after the broadcast on social networks videos showing a "yellow vest" wounded in the head in Bordeaux Saturday, following police shootings including by means of Defense Ball Launcher (LBD) in his direction.
The prosecution wants to "determine the circumstances" of the incident. The prefect Didier Lallement seized the IGPN, "in view of the elements, the facts leading him to request an investigation" administrative, said the prefecture. In a statement, the prosecution also said that after "the internet and some social networks broadcast" a video showing this protester, "the public prosecutor decided to seize these facts and open an investigation assigned to the IGPN to determine the circumstances ".
This weekend, several videos were broadcast showing different stages of the same scene, in the hyper-center of Bordeaux in the late afternoon, while the manifestation of the Act 9 degenerated into clashes with the law enforcement. On one of these videos, amateur, we see a police officer shoot at the LBD, another throw a projectile that could be a grenade of désencclement, in the direction of a street where a few seconds earlier had engaged running " yellow vests ".
The same video, uninterrupted, shows a few seconds later one of these men lying motionless face down, bleeding from the head, without any image if the injury is the direct consequence of the impact of a projectile, or related to the fall. Other images, a few seconds later, including those of an AFP journalist, show the wounded assisted by street medics, then taken care of and evacuated, obviously aware, by firefighters.
The man was placed in an artificial coma. According to the prefecture and police sources, the police intervention in this area of the center of Bordeaux was following an attempt to damage an adjoining Apple Store store, which had already been looted on December 8, during the war. '"Act 4".
According to statements by his wife Sud-Ouest daily, the injured is a 47-year-old volunteer firefighter from Bazas, came to protest in Bordeaux, and had "nothing to reproach himself" Saturday. Hospitalized at the University Hospital, he was operated on and placed in an artificial coma, but the doctors are "reassuring for the future," she told Southwest.