The driver of the vehicle targeted by police fire who killed one of his passengers was presented to a magistrate on Thursday, his lawyer, Me Ibrahim Shalabi, said at a press conference.

Suspected of refusing to comply during this police check on Saturday in Paris, the man was placed in police custody on Tuesday for "attempted homicide on a person holding public authority".

He himself had been seriously injured by police fire.

He was then to be presented to the investigating judge in charge of the investigations, who will decide on his indictment, then to a judge of freedoms and detention who will decide on his imprisonment or his placement under judicial control.

Numerous other charges against the driver

The investigation which targets him was also opened for "refusal to comply aggravated by the endangerment of others, driving despite cancellation of the driving license and driving under the influence of an alcoholic state and after having used substances classified as narcotics”.

This driver is suspected of having refused to comply late Saturday morning in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, when mountain bike officials wanted to check his vehicle twice.

The officials fired, hit him in the chest and shot his passenger in the front, a young woman born in 2001, who died the next day, in the head.

The police custody of the three police officers who used their weapon – two men aged 23 and 32 and a woman aged 31 – was lifted on Tuesday after forty-eight hours, for “continuation of investigations”, without prosecution. this stage.

The family of the passenger killed by the police in Paris will file a complaint

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