Illustration of an LBD shot.
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Olivier CORET / SIPA
The facts go back to November, in Tourcoing, in the North.
Two investigations, judicial and administrative, are underway after the injury of a man by a fire from a defense bullet launcher (LBD) of a police officer, we learned from the Lille prosecutor's office, confirming information from
Mediapart
.
"In a context of urban violence, while the police were deployed on the public highway, an official made use of an LBD", reaching "a man in his forties," said the AFP, the Lille prosecutor's office.
"A judicial investigation is underway," he confirmed.
Aimed at the flank
According to the general directorate of the national police, an administrative investigation was also opened "as soon as the facts were reported to the departmental director of public security of the North, who entrusted it to the ethics unit" of his services.
The injured man, aged 43, told
Mediapart that
he was targeted in the flank by LBD fire on November 21 at around 9:20 p.m., when he went out for a walk, with his certificate.
Prohibition to go out
Came face to face with police officers who, according to him, were intervening for a group of young people throwing firecrackers, he explains having turned around to go home and then stopped because of the explosion of firecrackers nearby, before being hit by LBD's shot.
He also told
Mediapart
that the police prevented him from leaving his home with his wife to go to the emergency room.
The couple succeeded in a second attempt, after the police operation was over.
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