Police Illustration.
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Franck Lodi
In the night from Sunday to Monday, a police officer fatally hit a motorist who was trying to escape a control in Bayonne.
The shooter's custody was lifted on Tuesday, informs the Bayonne prosecutor's office in a press release.
The first elements of the investigation show, according to the prosecutor Jérôme Bourrier, that the victim "deliberately struck the police vehicle positioned as a roadblock on the traffic lane, and directed his own vehicle in the direction of the police officer who was on the road. the grassy median, injuring his knee as he tried to avoid it.
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The agent would have acted according to the rules
The IGPN's investigations "seem to converge to establish that the police officer who fatally wounded Nathalie Flores, used his weapon under the conditions of absolute necessity and proportionality required by article L435-1
of the internal security
code
, to immobilize a vehicle likely to perpetrate in its flight an attack on the life and the physical integrity of its colleague ”, adds the Public Prosecutor's Office.
Nevertheless, the Public Prosecutor's Office specifies that these are not final conclusions and that an examining magistrate will be appointed in the coming days to endeavor to understand "the chronology of the facts, and to confront it with ballistics expertise. lesion and the conclusions resulting from the autopsy performed by the Bordeaux medico-legal institute.
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