The policeman who killed two people on the Pont-Neuf in Paris indicted
Police opened fire on a vehicle and killed two of its occupants on April 25, 2022 on the Pont-Neuf in Paris.
AFP - LUDOVIC MARIN
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The police officer who killed Sunday, April 24 two men who would have, in the car, restarted hastily towards a patrol, was indicted yesterday, Wednesday, in particular for "intentional homicide" concerning the driver.
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Self-defense is not retained at this stage.
According to a judicial source, this 24-year-old peacekeeper
was indicted for "voluntary homicide"
, "willful violence by a person holding public authority resulting in death without intention to give it" with regard to the passenger before and for "willful violence aggravated by a person holding public authority" against the rear passenger.
He was placed under judicial control, with a ban on leaving the territory "except in exceptional cases", on appearing in Paris, on contacting the police department to which he belongs for six months, on exercising as a police officer involving a contact with the public, carrying weapons and contact with victims.
He also has a duty of care.
Requested by AFP, the prosecution clarified that numerous investigations relating to the facts, partly of a criminal nature, still had to take place, in particular on the question of self-defense.
"
An inadmissible decision
" for the Alliance union
Classified on the right, the Alliance police union immediately challenged what it called "
an inadmissible decision
" by the judges, calling for a rally on Monday at the "
Fontaine Saint-Michel, facing the Paris Court
".
Sunday, shortly before midnight, a patrol of five police officers had moved towards a car parked in the wrong direction, hazard lights on, quai des Orfèvres on the Ile de la Cité, to check this vehicle, according to the intervention report of the police consulted by AFP.
As the police approached the front of the car, it started and allegedly "
ran towards one of the officials who moved away to avoid
it", still according to the version of the police officials.
"The only" police officer on the spot to be armed with an assault rifle then opened fire on the vehicle which was heading for the Pont-Neuf where it ended its race after climbing on a median strip.
According to the first elements of the investigation, a dozen cartridges were fired, "
five or six impacts having reached the individuals
".
This peacekeeper was equipped with an HK G36, an assault rifle bought urgently from the police and gendarmes after the deadly jihadist attacks of November 13, 2015 in Paris to be able to respond to Kalashnikov fire.
The HK G36 was already used before by elite police and gendarmerie units.
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AFP)
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